“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, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“A practical girl never pines; she takes action.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“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, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“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.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“Giacomina had taught her daughter that you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow must galvanize you, not define you.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“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, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“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, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“Women move through the world never knowing their power.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“He promised to love me. And for once in my life, I'm going to do the impractical, unwise, ill-advised thing. I'm going to make a decision based upon the feeling I have in my heart, and not what looks good on paper or makes anyone else happy. I'm going to do something for me, and I'll live with whatever Ciro brings into my life and be happy that I did.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“You must pray.'
'No, Sister.' Ciro smiled weakly. 'I'm not a good Catholic.'
'Well, Ciro, you're a good man, and that's more important.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“Ciro took Enza's face in his hands. "I have loved you all of my life. I was a boy who knew nothing, but when I met you, somehow I understood everything”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“He loved his family and he loved beauty. For a true Italian, those are the only two things that matter, because in the end that's what sustains you. Your family gathers around you and shores you up while the beauty uplifts you.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“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, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by...”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“When I close my eyes, all I ever see is her face. There is no place or time without her. Where I am doesn't matter when we're apart. All I want is her.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“A man who needs a mirror is looking for something.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“He sank into the leather seat and held hope in his heart like a hundred stars.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“A cassock does not make a man a priest, any more than a fine dress makes a woman truly beautiful - or good or generous or intelligent. Don't confuse the way someone looks with the way they are.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“A man needs his father more as life progresses, not less. It is not enough to learn how to use a lathe, milk a cow, repair a roof; there are greater holes to mend, deeper wells to fill, that only a father’s wisdom can sustain. A father teaches his son how to think a problem through, how to lead a household, how to love his wife. A father sets an example for his son, building his character from the soul outward.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“Enza thought no place on earth could be colder than the Italian Alps, but now she knew she just had never been to Minnesota.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“I’ve learned that it’s fine to have expectations, and dreams are wonderful, but once in a while, it would be good to have something come my way without having to fight for it.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“For Ciro, Enza would sacrifice, fight to put food on the table, worry and fret over babies, and live life in full. She had only one life to share, and one heart to give the man who most deserved it. If she took Ciro on, she was in for a struggle compared to her life with Vito, but the love of all loves was worth it.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
“Ciro had made a bet in proposing to her, and on that same day, Enza made a bet of her own. She was putting all her money, effort and future into a partnership that she believed could not fail. She was going to pour all of herself into her marriage: love would sustain them, and trust would see them through. That was her belief, and that's how she was raised. When she spun the gold ring on her finger, it was as though it was made for her, but it meant even more that her husband had worn it since he was a boy. She was a part of his history now.”
― Adriana Trigiani, quote from The Shoemaker's Wife
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“Although the borderline may not be consciously aware of this dilemma, he frequently places a friend or relation in a no-win situation in which the other person is condemned no matter which way he goes.”
― Jerold J. Kreisman, quote from I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
“automated voices and the bells from the row of testing machines in the back. The walls were white cinder block, the floors speckled linoleum. At the front desk were four large black ladies. Leigh Anne handed all the documents over to one of them, who took one look at them and said in a slow drawl, “Uh-uh. This school”
― Michael Lewis, quote from The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
“About him and his wife voting for different parties. A few years ago that would have been unthinkable.” “No doubt.” “Quite extraordinary the things that happen now. But that’s what’s meant by democracy, I suppose.” Ogata-San gave a sigh. “These things we’ve learnt so eagerly from the Americans, they aren’t always to the good.” “No, indeed they’re not.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, quote from A Pale View of Hills
“Adults are not idiots
often in books such as this one, the opposite impression is given. Adults in those stories will either (a) get captured, (b) disappear conspicuously when there is trouble, or (c) refuse to help.
( im not sure what authors have against adults, but everyone seems to hate them to an extent usually reserved for dogs and mothers. Why else make them out to make such idiots? "Ah look, the dark lord of evil has come to attack the castle! Annnd. ther's my lunch break. Have fun saving the word on your own kids")
In the real world adults tend to get involved in everything whether you want them to or not. They won't disappear when the dark lord appears, though they may try to sue them.
This discrepancy is yet another proof that most books are fantasies while this book is utterly true and invaluable.
you see in this book, I will make it completely clear that adults are not idiots.
they are however hairy
Adults are like hairy kids who like to tell other what to do. Dispite what other books may claim they do have their uses, they can reach things on high shelves for instance...
Regardless, i often wish that the two groups-adults and kids- could find a way to get along better. Some sort of treaty or something. The biggest problem is the adults have one of the most effective recruitment stratagies in the world.
Give them enough time and they'll turn any kid into one of them.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones
“a chin that could destroy small countries if it fell into the wrong hands.”
― Brandon Sanderson, quote from Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
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