Erin

“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

“(W)hen a load is too heavy for one horse to pull, what do we do? Hitch another to it, don't we? That's just common sense. Well, son, things that sort of weigh on a man's mind and heart may be too heavy for him to make much headway with alone.”
― Kate Seredy, The Chestry Oak

“Women move through the world never knowing their power.”
― Adriana Trigiani, 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, The Shoemaker's Wife