Adriana Trigiani Quotes

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

I didn't get as much attention as I wanted from girls as a teenager. I thought that if I became a rock star, I would finally get all that I wanted - but it didn't happen.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and it isn't much fun. Not as glamorous and enjoyable as you imagine.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.

I accept the fact that some things don't go the way you hope.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.