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The Shoemaker's Wife QUOTES

The Shoemaker's Wife QUOTES

1 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife

2 " The young have everything but wisdom. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Shoemaker's Wife

3 " Ciro carried himself like a general in full regalia, when in fact he wore secondhand clothes from the donation bin. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Shoemaker's Wife

4 " The grandeur of the opera house thrilled Laura too. It took thousand of employees to keep such a vast place running. There were hundreds of artists involved behind the scenes - stagehands, electricians, set builders, property masters, costumers, dressers, wigmakers, and milliners.
There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan, thought Enza. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Shoemaker's Wife

5 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife

6 " Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Shoemaker's Wife

7 " Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Shoemaker's Wife

8 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife

9 " A practical girl never pines; she takes action. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Shoemaker's Wife

10 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife

11 " It's the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Shoemaker's Wife

12 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife

13 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife

14 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife

15 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife

16 " Women move through the world never knowing their power. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Shoemaker's Wife

17 " Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them. "

― Adriana Trigiani , The Shoemaker's Wife

18 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife

19 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife

20 " 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 , The Shoemaker's Wife