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She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?


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NORA EPHRON I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
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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...
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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...
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