Top 120 Adriana Trigiani Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.”

— Adriana Trigiani

2. “That’s when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you – without you asking.”

— Adriana Trigiani

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3. “It’s the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.”

— Adriana Trigiani

4. “There’s nothing an artist needs more – even more than excellent tools and stamina – than a deadline.”

— Adriana Trigiani

5. “You kick a dog long enough, and eventually it will bite.”

— Adriana Trigiani

6. “I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.”

— Adriana Trigiani

7. “Let life unfold, say what you mean. You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now. You can’t know if you’ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.”

— Adriana Trigiani

8. “I’ve learned one important lesson in my life, and I’m going to share it with you. Don’t worry about bad things that haven’t happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.”

— Adriana Trigiani

9. “A practical girl never pines; she takes action.”

— Adriana Trigiani

10. “Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.”

— Adriana Trigiani

11. “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.”

— Adriana Trigiani

12. “Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.”

— Adriana Trigiani

13. “A good mother is irreplaceable.”

— Adriana Trigiani

14. “Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.”

— Adriana Trigiani

15. “Motherhood changes everything.”

— Adriana Trigiani

16. “Food is so important – it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.”

— Adriana Trigiani

17. “Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.”

— Adriana Trigiani

18. “What a boon to live on the water! Such delicious shades and hues! This is a template worthy of the greatest painters. The textures of sand and stone could inspire incomparable sculptures, and the sounds – the steady lapping of the waves, the sweet chirping of the birds, make this a sanctuary.”

— Adriana Trigiani

19. “We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.”

— Adriana Trigiani

20. “And just as in life, if a man imagines himself on his deathbed and then works back through the years of his life, he will make better decisions along the way, knowing the end. Or at the very least, he”ll spend his time more wisely.”

— Adriana Trigiani

21. “How fragile love is. How delicate and small in its first buds, when it’s just an idea, a wish filled with hope. It is so easy to turn away from it entirely and choose to live alone in your own private fear. I had one moment of courage, and it changed my life. I didn’t turn to love out of loneliness. Or out of habit. I let love change me.”

— Adriana Trigiani

22. “Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren’t looking for it and didn’t plan on it.”

— Adriana Trigiani

23. “She told me something that has stayed with me. Ferber said, ‘Beware the clowns.’ The leaders who start out as jokes – people make fun of them, they’re caricatures, cartoons in newspapers, and people decide they are harmless. Those men are the most dangerous. The day comes when they use their power against their own people.” Alda.”

— Adriana Trigiani

24. “When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.”

— Adriana Trigiani

25. “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.”

— Adriana Trigiani

26. “I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won’t be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful.”

— Adriana Trigiani

27. “But a child’s joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son’s laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible.”

— Adriana Trigiani

28. “The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.”

— Adriana Trigiani

29. “The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.”

— Adriana Trigiani

30. “If you truly love someone, when he is cut, you bleed.”

— Adriana Trigiani

31. “Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.”

— Adriana Trigiani

32. “For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.”

— Adriana Trigiani

33. “All the things I thought I was – simple and plain and sometime funny – are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.”

— Adriana Trigiani

34. “There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.”

— Adriana Trigiani

35. “All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by...”

— Adriana Trigiani

36. “I even love the smell of books.”

— Adriana Trigiani

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37. “This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships – they can’t. It interferes.”

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38. “People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother’s house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.”

— Adriana Trigiani

39. “When you lose someone, they take a bigger place in your heart, not a smaller one. Every day it grows, because you don’t stop loving them. You wish you could talk to them. You need their advice. But life doesn’t always give us what we need, and it’s difficult.”

— Adriana Trigiani

40. “The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse’s ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.”

— Adriana Trigiani

41. “When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick – she never has to wait for someone to choose her.”

— Adriana Trigiani

42. “Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.”

— Adriana Trigiani

43. “I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.”

— Adriana Trigiani

44. “The world was noisy. As Ciro looked around, he was the only person who seemed to be listening.”

— Adriana Trigiani

45. “The distance between the haves and the have-nots is a train ride.”

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46. “I don’t use a crap camera, I don’t eat junk, and I’m not going to a dance where the boys are bores.”

— Adriana Trigiani

47. “That we looked out for one another- that we watched out for each other’s kids and shared the harvest of our gardens and took care of our old people, and when we did the little things, like bake a cake, we’d bake two, one for our home and one for the neighbor.”

— Adriana Trigiani

48. “What I wouldn’t give to have known my father with my mother in love-together, you know, just the two of them, in the kitchen laughing, making a sandwich, or holding hands on the street, seeing my father open a car door for my other. The absence of those things are what makes you an orphan-it’s the ordinary everyday expressions of love you miss.”

— Adriana Trigiani

49. “Whever I came into the room, she’d light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. 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.”

— Adriana Trigiani

50. “Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn’t worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.”

— Adriana Trigiani