“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, books.google.comTagged: Parents, Hope
“When you get divorced and you don't get the house (which I never did), you leave behind all sorts of things you don't have the sense to know you'll someday wonder about, or wish you still had, or, worst of all, feel genuinely nostalgic for.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Divorce, Loss, Heartache, Nostalgia
“Failure, they say, is a growth experience; you learn from failure. I wish that were true. It seems to me the main thing you learn from failure is that it's entirely possible you will have another failure.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Failure, Growth
“It was exciting in its own self-absorbed way, which is very much the essence of journalism: you truly believe that you are living at the center of the universe and that the world out there is on tenterhooks waiting for the next copy of whatever publication you work at.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Journalism, self-absorption
“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.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Parenting
“I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Age, Aging
“I am living in the Google years, no question of that. And there are advantages to it. When you forget something, you can whip out your iPhone and go to Google. The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling t…”— Nora Ephron, books.google.comTagged: Google, iPhone, Wikipedia, Memory