Erin

“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

“He sank into the leather seat and held hope in his heart like a hundred stars.”
― Adriana Trigiani, The Shoemaker's Wife

“We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Or, the New Pilgrims' Progress

“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