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The Good Left Undone QUOTES

The Good Left Undone QUOTES

1 " Dear family, you are the author of your destiny. In your hands is the ending of your story and the start of a new one each time a baby is born. God knows what He’s doing. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

2 " There are many gifts a friend brings to a woman’s life. History. Empathy. Honesty. Lucky was the woman who kept a childhood friend because that friend remembered what you looked like, who you were, and your people. Lucky was the woman who had a friend from the age of ten, when girls were brave, gutsy, and full of questions and had the time and pep to seek the answers. That friend knew who you really were. That friend had seen your soul. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

3 " If you’re lucky, and you’re like me, you’ll be old much longer than you are young, and you will enjoy the wisdom that comes from experience. But you have to plan for that. That’s why it’s important to find something you love to do. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

4 " Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

5 " May God bless you and give you what you need because what you want will get you in trouble.” Figliolo blessed himself. “The Cabrellis have always been fighters. You’ll be all right. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

6 " Listen to me. Love yourself. That’s the greatest adventure. When you love yourself, you want to find your purpose, something only you can do in the way only you can do it. Make things. Create. And if a man comes along—and believe me, he will—the relationship is already off to a good start because both of you love the same person. You. Lucky him. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

7 " Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the past, contemplate these things: The evil done The good left undone The time wasted "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

8 " Let whoever longs to attain eternal life in heaven heed these warnings: When considering the future, contemplate these things: Death, than which nothing is more certain "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

9 " Judgment, than which nothing is more strict Hell, than which nothing is more terrible Paradise, than which nothing is more delightful "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

10 " But the first thing that leaves in success is the memory of what it felt like to be poor. We shed that insecurity like an old pair of shoes the moment there's money in the bank. We slip into fine leather and forget how badly our feet used to hurt. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

11 " I want you to realize that this whole thing is just a grand adventure. A fine show. The trick is to play in it and look at it at the same time. . . . The more kinds of people you see, the more things you do, and the more things happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they're not pleasant things. That's living . . .

~ Edna Ferber's SO BIG "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

12 " It was easy to avoid his mother because she did not seek his company, make his meals, or do his laundry. His childhood home was a place to lodge until his orders came through. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

13 " My brother, the golden boy. It’s been this way all our lives. No matter what Matteo does, he is revered. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

14 " Here he was, a man of nearly forty whose mother had managed to run one son off to New Zealand, the other to the sea. John McVicars was an itinerant sailor who managed to stay away more months of the year than he was at home. His father, who perished at sea, was a disappointment to his wife, who complained that he died just to spite her. Grizelle felt cheated, which turned her bitter. She had it a point to make her family as miserable as she was. Grizelle's lack of respect for her son's privacy did not come from a place of concern; instead, it was her last attempt to keep her son John tethered to her after the other men in her life abandoned her. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

15 " I want you to realize that this whole thing is just a grand adventure. A fine show. The trick is to play in it and look at it at the same time. . . . The more kinds of people you see, the more things you do, and the more things that happen to you, the richer you are. Even if they’re not pleasant things. That’s living . . . Emos moved the bookmark so he would not forget the passage from Edna Ferber’s novel So Big. He had not been present for Speranza’s "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

16 " There are many gifts a friend brings to a woman’s life. History. Empathy. Honesty. Lucky was the woman who kept a childhood friend because that friend remembered what you looked like, who you were, and your people. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

17 " Orecchiette. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

18 " Lucky was the woman who had a friend from the age of ten, when girls were brave, gutsy, and full of questions and had the time and pep to seek the answers. That friend knew who you really were. That friend had seen your soul. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

19 " When Matelda was young, she chased time to get what she wanted. Now she chased time to hold on to it. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone

20 " Old age was a box of surprises and not the good kind. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Good Left Undone