No puedes esperar que existan los finales felices. Tienes que creer en ellos. Luego haz el trabajo, asume los riesgos. Mata al dragón, besa a la princesa, o a la rana, y derrota a la malvada bruja.


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I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star re...
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I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onio...
NORA EPHRON
If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.
NORA EPHRON
I don't think there was ever a dish that changed my life. I certainly remember a constant series...
NORA EPHRON
It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was...
NORA EPHRON
Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"
Andrew gazed at him in silence for a mi...
NORA SAKAVIC
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...
NORA EPHRON
Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
NORA EPHRON
I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.
NORA DUNN
When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I ...
NORA EPHRON
The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It's followed by another basic an...
NORA EPHRON
I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to or...
NORA EPHRON
In California, of course, they never break up couples at dinner for fear of what might happen if som...
NORA EPHRON
Some day, some day of days, threading the street With idle, heedless pace, Unlooking for such ...
NORA PERRY
So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see; So blit...
NORA PERRY
If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.
NORA EPHRON
Every so often, I turn on the television and see one of the movement leaders being asked some idiot ...
NORA EPHRON
Women are being considered as candidates for Vice President of the United States because it is the w...
NORA EPHRON
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
NORA EPHRON
If pregnancy were a book they would cut out the last two chapters
NORA EPHRON
I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how m...
NORA EPHRON
When we initially did the game, it still had lava pits, the editor looked like an ogre - stuff like ...
NORA PAUL
I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a goo...
NORA EPHRON
Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live ...
NORA EPHRON
When I was 14 years old, I was with my parents at a restaurant. Some people came in and said, 'W...
NORA ARNEZEDER
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, "They lived happily ever aft...
NORA EPHRON
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be c...
NORA EPHRON
The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the lif...
NORA EPHRON
When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and mad...
NORA EPHRON
It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared...
NORA EPHRON
When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy...
NORA EPHRON
I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all ti...
NORA EPHRON
Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is r...
NORA EPHRON
Summer bachelors like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.
NORA EPHRON
When you're attracted to someone, it just means that your subconscious is attracted to their subcons...
NORA EPHRON
I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm no...
NORA EPHRON
I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.
NORA EPHRON
…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not ha...
NORA EPHRON
I didn't sign it," Neil said, looking up from his hands. He lifted his fingers to his face. He could...
NORA SAKAVIC
Nothing like mashed potatoes when you're feeling blue. Nothing like getting into bed with a bowl...
NORA EPHRON
I was alive during the women's lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position agai...
NORA EPHRON
More than 90 percent of the hospital bills I've audited have gross overcharges.
NORA JOHNSON
Ninety percent of the time the very sight of you makes me want to commit murder. I think about carvi...
NORA SAKAVIC
Is your learning curve a horizontal line?
NORA SAKAVIC
This is my reassured face," Neil said, pointing up at his blank expression.
NORA SAKAVIC
I survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't m...
NORA EPHRON
Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.
NORA EPHRON
Dale the Thug.
NORA EPHRON
'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and...
NORA EPHRON
As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.
NORA EPHRON
To state the obvious, romantic comedies have to be funny and they have to be romantic. But one of th...
NORA EPHRON
Joan is very funny. I'm always telling her she's a fraud: Everyone thinks she's fragile and humorles...
NORA EPHRON
I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
NORA EPHRON
With any child entering adolescence, one hunts for signs of health, is desperate for the smallest in...
NORA EPHRON
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets
NORA EPHRON
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The o...
NORA EPHRON
There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same l...
NORA EPHRON
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement in the 1970s was the Dutch treat
NORA EPHRON
It seemed to me that the desire to get married - which, I regret to say, I believe is basic and prim...
NORA EPHRON
We have lived through the era when happiness was a warm puppy, and the era when happiness was a dry ...
NORA EPHRON
Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but t...
NORA EPHRON
One thing that happens because adults are uncomfortable is we use a lot of euphemisms. Those can jus...
NORA GELPERIN
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, ''They lived happily ever af...
NORA EPHRON
[A successful parent is one] who raises a child who grows up and is able to pay for his or her own p...
NORA EPHRON
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SOPHIA NORA
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
NORA EPHRON
Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that ev...
NORA EPHRON
What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would d...
NORA EPHRON
I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies - which I once thou...
NORA EPHRON
When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banan...
NORA EPHRON
My second divorce was the worst kind of divorce. There were two children; one had just been born. My...
NORA EPHRON
If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when ...
NORA EPHRON
You do get to a certain point in life where you have to realistically, I think, understand that the ...
NORA EPHRON
Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bou...
NORA EPHRON
I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your ...
NORA EPHRON
Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC
I grew up with fantastic Southern food. In Southern California.
NORA EPHRON
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day o...
NORA EPHRON
I just bring a black turtleneck sweater everywhere - it's the greatest purchase of my life. Peri...
NORA EPHRON
Time was nothing. Seconds were days, were years, were the breaths that caught between their mouths a...
NORA SAKAVIC
This was everything he wanted, everything he needed, and Neil was never letting go.
NORA SAKAVIC
Fight because you don't know how to die quietly. Win because you don't know how to lose. This king's...
NORA SAKAVIC
Now that number was gone, covered up by the jet-black image of a chess piece. Neil's knowledge of ch...
NORA SAKAVIC