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• 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

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  Boys, Use, Cameras

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Viola in Reel Life”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

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  Secret, Littles, Looks

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Big Stone Gap: A Novel”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.

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  Love You, Things In Life, Mystery

  Adriana Trigiani (2010). “Encore Valentine”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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  Regret, Sleep, Knowing

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• The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

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  Writing, Emotional, Grandparent

  "Best Selling Novelist Pens Tale of Grandparents Star-Crossed Romance". Interview with Julie A. Carlson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Kids, Light, Giving

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me. But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened. I can only get up and do my chores and push through the day and find the good in it.

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  Morning, Brother, Lying

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

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  Mother, Book, Avid

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• 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.

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  Loneliness, First Love, Worry

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• The Wise County Bookmobile is one of the most beautiful sights in the world to me. When I see it lumbering down the mountain road like a tank . . . I flag it down like an old friend. I've waited on this corner every Friday since I can remember. The Bookmobile is just a government truck, but to me it's a glittering royal coach delivering stories and knowledge and life itself. I even love the smell of books. 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 on the Bookmobile.

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  Beautiful, Wise, Friday

  "Big Stone Gap". Book by Adriana Trigiani, January 1, 2003.

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• Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful. I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a life, start a business and find love in a place so far from home. Ireland has never been more beautiful - the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.

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  Beautiful, Home, Perfect

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• Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

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  Book, World, Clubs

  Interview with Margo Hammond, Ellen Heltzel, www.goodhousekeeping.com. August 1, 2005.

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• A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our great longing for times that have passed, the sterling moment of the present and the glorious future known only in our imaginations.

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  Dream, Home, Imagination

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• I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.

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  Art, Pain, Believe

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• I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

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  Writing, Love Is, Found

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• You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.

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  Ideas, Ordinary, Very Inspirational

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• Women move through the world never knowing their power.

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  Moving, Knowing, World

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

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  Spiritual, Writing, Giving

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• Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable.

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  Cutting, Boys, Energy

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• I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet.

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  Sweet, Spring, Joy

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• Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

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  Two, Survival, And Love

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• 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.

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  Horse, Your Side, Matter

  Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.98, Random House

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• Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

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  Art, Grandchildren, Treasure

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Wisdom of My Grandmothers: Lessons to live by, from one generation of remarkable women to the next”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses - and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.

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  Talking, Roots, Taste

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• 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.

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  Pain, Emotional, Air

  Adriana Trigiani (2005). “Rococo: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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