Quote of the Day

The realization that I may have only a few good years remaining has hit me with real force, and I have done a lot of thinking as a result.  I would like to have come up with something profound, but I haven't.  I try to figure out what I really want to do every day, I try to say to myself, If this is one of the last days of my life, am I doing exactly what I want to be doing?  I aim low.  My idea of a perfect day is a frozen custard at Shake Shack and a walk in the park.  (Followed by a Lactaid.)  My idea of a perfect night is a good play and dinner at Orso.  (But no garlic, or I won't be able to sleep.)  The other day I found a bakery that bakes my favorite childhood cake, and it was everything I remembered; it made my week.

-- Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing, p. 129

Quote of the Day

I have a pile of her letters.  When I look through them, it all comes back to me -- how much I'd loved the early letters, how charmed I'd been, how flattered, how much less charming they began to seem, how burdensome they became, and then, finally, how boring.  The story of love.

-- Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing, p. 87

Quote of the Day

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be.  But they're never going to.  And even though you know they're never going to, you still hope they will.

-- Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing, p. 51

Quote of the Day

(Alcoholic parents) have moments when they're still the people you grew up idolizing; they have moments when you can't imagine they were ever anything but monsters.  And then, after a while, they're monsters full-time.  The people they used to be have enormous power over you...but the people they've turned into have no power over you at all.

-- Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing, p. 38

Quote of the Day

Whenever I read a book I love, I start to remember all the other books that have sent me into rapture, and I can remember where I was living and the couch I was sitting on when I read them.

-- Nora Ephron, I Feel Back About My Neck, p. 119

Quote of the Day

The state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read, but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I'm truly beside myself.

-- Nora Ephron, I Feel Back About My Neck, p. 118

Quote of the Day

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

-- Nora Ephron