“According to my dermatologist, the neck starts to go at forty-three, and that's that...The neck is a dead giveaway. Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth. You have to cut open a redwood tree to see how old it is, but you wouldn't have to if it had a neck.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Aging, Dermatology
“Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Black, Fashion, style
“When I pass a bookshelf, I like to pick out a book from it and thumb through it. When I see a newspaper on the couch, I like to sit down with it....Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better per…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Reading
“I loathed being sixty-four, and I will hate being sixty-five. I don’t let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyannaish. But the honest truth is that it’s sad to be over sixty. The long shadows are everywhere—friends dying and battling illness. A miasma of melancholy hang…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Aging, Regret, Edith Piaf
“I live in New York City. I could never live anywhere else. The events of September 11 forced me to confront the fact that no matter what, I live here and always will. One of my favorite things about New York is that you can pick up the phone and order anything and someone will deliver it to you. Onc…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: New York City, 9/11
“It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Indifference, Moving On
“I want to talk to her. I want to have lunch with her. I want her to give me a book she just read and loved. She is my phantom limb, and I just can’t believe I’m here without her.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Heartache, Loss
“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: feminism, Manhattan, Los Angeles
“Here are some questions I am constantly noodling over: Do you splurge or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long? Do you work as hard as you can, or do you slow d…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: chocolate, Roses, Carbohydrates
“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is es…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Reading, Imagination