Erin

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

“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

“(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

“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