Quotes from Adriana Trigiani

When I was young, I was stupid, and I thought maybe I would write the fancy stuff.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.

I don't like any art form barraged in violence or hurt.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.