“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.”

American author and entrepreneur, contemporary

Adriana Trigiani is an American author, playwright, television writer and producer, film director, screenwriter, and producer based in New York City. She has 89 quotes on the site and is known for a wide-ranging creative career across books, stage, film, and television. She has written eighteen books and has published a novel a year since 2000. Her work spans several forms, reflecting a career that moves between fiction, scriptwriting, directing, producing, and entrepreneurship.