Do You Want Me to Go? Quotes

“But a marriage is a relationship that lives in the moment, that relies on the past to give it meaning.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Do You Want Me to Go?: A Short Story

“Being alone isn’t a sad proposition—being with someone for whom you are not enough is brutal. It’s a prison. It’s isolation and humiliation and pain. I know what it’s like to be alone.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Do You Want Me to Go?: A Short Story

“That’s my weakness. I’m a hopeful person. I believe in the power of change. The power of redemption. You must earn your salvation, Tommy. You can’t buy it.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Do You Want Me to Go?: A Short Story

“A woman needs to know that she is the priceless diamond, that she has value and worth, not the things she owns or wears. Loving a man cannot keep him faithful, and being a horrible human being will not cause him to stray. It’s all inside the man; it has nothing to do with who he is married to, or how much money he has or doesn’t have. He has to love himself in order to love his wife. He has to believe in himself on his own without her, or he will always be seeking it elsewhere. You couldn’t be true because you never figured out how wonderful it is to be faithful to another person, because you were never faithful to yourself. You lifted weights and you worked out, and to reward yourself you had a cigarette. Do you understand how twisted that was? Sure, I kept my figure and I looked better than any of the women you stepped out with, but it wasn’t about me. It was about your lack of self-respect.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Do You Want Me to Go?: A Short Story

“If you didn’t have regrets, you’d never do anything worth remembering.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Do You Want Me to Go?: A Short Story

“You’ve always been an insecure man. My father told me that the person to fear the most is the insecure one.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Do You Want Me to Go?: A Short Story

“You were scared. Fear in a man is the worst. It’s why men start wars, hoard money, and philander.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Do You Want Me to Go?: A Short Story

“But a marriage is a relationship that lives in the moment”
― Adriana Trigiani, Do You Want Me to Go?: A Short Story

“A woman needs to know that she is the priceless diamond, that she has value and worth, not the things she owns or wears. Loving a man cannot keep him faithful, and being a horrible human being will not cause him to stray. It’s all inside the man; it has nothing to do with who he is married to, or how much money he has or doesn’t have. He has to love himself in order to love his wife. He has to believe in himself on his own without her, or he will always be seeking it elsewhere. You couldn’t be true because you never figured out how wonderful it is to be faithful to another person, because you were never faithful to yourself.”
― Adriana Trigiani, Do You Want Me to Go?: A Short Story