Milk Glass Moon Quotes

“(I) realize that maybe my daughter did miss out on a big family life as an only child, but what she got instead was just as valuable. How many girls have an honorary aunt like Iva Lou? Sometimes what we don't get in this life makes way for something even better.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Milk Glass Moon :

“You know what my mother always told me? ...That all the answers to all your questions are already inside of you. You just have to listen.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Milk Glass Moon

“A long time ago I went to a fortuneteller, and she told me that when you have a dream come true, you must then re-dream. You must not stay in the past, because all of life changes anyway, and if you try to hang on to happiness, or success, or even the people in your life, you will be unhappy. You have to set new goals.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Milk Glass Moon

“And when the moon is full and there’s a lot of light, it overpowers the sparkle of the stars, so you think they’re gone. But they’re there. In science, the only concept you can prove is that things always change. But the truth is, they also stay the same.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Milk Glass Moon

“When you live in the mountains, there are signs every day that life is changing. The terrain shifts when the mountains settle, and sometimes streams disappear never to return. One year you might find sweet raspberries growing by a field, and the very next summer they['re gone. Take nothing for granted, because if you do, it will surely go. If an old tree gets leveled by lightening, it reminds you that you're vulnerable too. And even though these woods are loaded with trees, when one falls, you miss it.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Milk Glass Moon

“A son is a son till he marries a wife; a daughter’s a daughter the rest of her life.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Milk Glass Moon