Nora Ephron quote: "…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death."

Everyone loves fried chicken, Don't ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good frie...
NORA EPHRON

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

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is cont...
NORA EPHRON

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admi...
NORA EPHRON

It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever afte...
NORA EPHRON

I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned...
NORA EPHRON

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...
NORA EPHRON

My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if yo...
NORA EPHRON

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
NORA EPHRON

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. -Nora Eph...
NORA EPHRON

When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thi...
NORA EPHRON

I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star re...
NORA EPHRON

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, be...
NORA EPHRON

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
most of them, but never the potato...
NORA EPHRON

I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing arou...
NORA EPHRON

Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.
DELIA EPHRON

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
HALLIE EPHRON

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was ...
HALLIE EPHRON

Madame Olga began muttering something under her breath in gypsy to the effect of "Fucking debutantes...
AMY EPHRON

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
DELIA EPHRON

I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter...
HALLIE EPHRON

The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we we...
HALLIE EPHRON

Outlining is like putting on training wheels. It gives me the courage to write, but we always go off...
HALLIE EPHRON

Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be-they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, ...
DELIA EPHRON

[It] consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.
DELIA EPHRON

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and mai...
DELIA EPHRON

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mat...
DELIA EPHRON

I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon ...
HALLIE EPHRON

Do you know what I feel about you, Devin? About us?...Dazzled, you dazzle me. You make me feel thing...
NORA ROBERTS

I’ve never been the one. Not for anybody.”
He closed the distance between them.
“Yo...
NORA ROBERTS

Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and t...
NORA ROBERTS

And since I’m marrying into the Quartet, I have certain privileges and duties. If you’re sleepin...
NORA ROBERTS

Who said 'please' that made you hate the word so much?"
Andrew gazed at him in silence for a mi...
NORA SAKAVIC

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.
NORA DUNN

Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.
NORA ROBERTS

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd...
NORA ROBERTS

Don't you want me to kiss you goodbye, sweetie?"
"Kiss a cow farm boy
NORA ROBERTS

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.
NORA ROBERTS

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.
NORA ROBERTS

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Whe...
NORA ROBERTS

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools...
NORA ROBERTS

Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ...
NORA ROBERTS

Alone in her shelter, she allowed herself tears. When her shelter cooled to the touch she called to ...
NORA ROBERTS

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

Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
NORA ROBERTS

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no...
NORA ROBERTS

When we initially did the game, it still had lava pits, the editor looked like an ogre - stuff like ...
NORA PAUL

When I was 14 years old, I was with my parents at a restaurant. Some people came in and said, 'W...
NORA ARNEZEDER

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both t...
NORA ROBERTS

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.
NORA ROBERTS

Good fiction creates its own reality.
NORA ROBERTS

It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.
NORA ROBERTS

We make destiny with every turn, every choice.
NORA ROBERTS

He gave her a quick, casual kiss on the cheek first. Then came the hug, and it was the hug that alwa...
NORA ROBERTS

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.
NORA ROBERTS

I didn't sign it," Neil said, looking up from his hands. He lifted his fingers to his face. He could...
NORA SAKAVIC

Men didn't respect beauty...they used it.
NORA ROBERTS

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene re...
NORA ROBERTS

I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
NORA ROBERTS

squats are a form of torture designed by people who don’t need to do squats in the first place
NORA ROBERTS

More than 90 percent of the hospital bills I've audited have gross overcharges.
NORA JOHNSON

Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same...
NORA ROBERTS

ADWOFF [is] wonderful, entertaining, informative and just plain fun,
NORA ROBERTS

Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader, ... As book lovers, librarians introduce...
NORA ROBERTS

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

Es como saber que eres el centro, lo único que él ve, que solo te ve a ti. Y eso es tan tierno y e...
NORA ROBERTS

Men like him were so used to getting their own way with a quick smile, a murmured
word, they di...
NORA ROBERTS

It feels like Scotland." "Have you ever been?" "Mmmm. Twice. Have you?" "No." "You should. It's your...
NORA ROBERTS

Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.
NORA ROBERTS

Marry me, Rebecca...You might as well say yes. I'll just talk you into it.
NORA ROBERTS

You can fix anything but a blank page.
NORA ROBERTS

Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both t...
NORA ROBERTS

One thing that happens because adults are uncomfortable is we use a lot of euphemisms. Those can jus...
NORA GELPERIN

Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a lit...
NORA ROBERTS

Love is not enough. But, it is the rock on which all else stands.
NORA ROBERTS

Some people get lifetimes, some get moments. I’ve got to tell myself it’s what you do with what ...
NORA ROBERTS

Brother, when beauty falls into your hand, you hold on to it while you can. You could be dead tomorr...
NORA ROBERTS

The story was told, generation by generation, in song and in story, until time misted it into myth a...
NORA ROBERTS

To crave forever is to dismiss the beauty and wonder of the cycle.
NORA ROBERTS

The man who loses the boy is a sad and serious man.
NORA ROBERTS

Get It Done Fast, Cost Effective and With Professional Results to Outsource Your Medical Data Entry ...
SOPHIA NORA

Laurel: I don't need a ring or a license, or a spetacular white dress. It's not marriage so much, or...
NORA ROBERTS

If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn’t sending you...
NORA ROBERTS

You need a place just a click over middle range. Don’t want to go all-out first time, but you don�...
NORA ROBERTS

Excuse me? Tonight you represent every dateless woman in this city, every woman who's about to sit d...
NORA ROBERTS

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses,...
NORA ROBERTS

There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school...
NORA ROBERTS

...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into...
NORA ROBERTS

The wounded recognized the wounded.
NORA ROBERTS

I wanted to use an urban setting with a small-town feel for a story that took a character through he...
NORA ROBERTS

There were too many idiot men in the world, to her way of thinking. And most of them ended up bumpin...
NORA ROBERTS

Survivors lived with their mistakes.
NORA ROBERTS

Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.
NORA ROBERTS

Memories are nice little possessions. As long as you don't ignore the present when you take them out...
NORA ROBERTS

You have to unhook your seat belt." "That's not true." "I'm afraid it's difficult to walk on the bea...
NORA ROBERTS

Amor, pensó, entregado de forma libre, aceptado de forma voluntaria. No había magia más potente.
NORA ROBERTS

El amor lo complica todo y también se abre paso a través de todo. (Connor)
NORA ROBERTS

No puedes esperar que existan los finales felices. Tienes que creer en ellos. Luego haz el trabajo, ...
NORA ROBERTS

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of ...
NORA ROBERTS

It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, wit...
NORA ROBERTS

He was one of the many toads you have to go through to find the prince.
NORA ROBERTS

When you wait all your life for something and then you find it, it's like a miracle. All the parts i...
NORA ROBERTS

Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC

I want a beer. I want a giant, ice-cold bottle of beer and shower sex.
NORA ROBERTS

Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake ...
NORA ROBERTS

Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who...
NORA ROBERTS

You love tests?"
"Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, ...
NORA ROBERTS

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.
NORA ROBERTS

If something isn't special, then it's ordinary.
NORA ROBERTS

He loved his job. What was advertising, anyway, but a knowledge of people and of which buttons to pu...
NORA ROBERTS

In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
NORA ROBERTS

Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now....
NORA ROBERTS

When something comes easy, you usually let it go the same way.
NORA ROBERTS

Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.
NORA ROBERTS

Time was nothing. Seconds were days, were years, were the breaths that caught between their mouths a...
NORA SAKAVIC

Evil cannot and will not be vanquished by evil. Dark will only swallow dark and deepen. The good and...
NORA ROBERTS

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

Thank you," he finally said. He couldn't say he meant thanks for all of it: the keys, the trust, the...
NORA SAKAVIC

I hate you,” Andrew said casually. He took a last long drag from his cigarette and flicked it off ...
NORA SAKAVIC

Andrew dug a finger in Neil's cheek and forcibly turned his head away. "Don't look at me like that. ...
NORA SAKAVIC

This isn’t about the Ravens. This is about you. This is about everything it took you to get to thi...
NORA SAKAVIC

This,” Neil flicked his finger to indicate the two of them, “isn’t worthless.”
“There...
NORA SAKAVIC

He taught me to believe in myself. He showed me how to balance my faith and my sexuality, and he mad...
NORA SAKAVIC

Your parents are dead, you are not fine, and nothing is going to be okay. This is not news to you. B...
NORA SAKAVIC

Neil thought about Renee's bruised knuckles, Dan's fierce spirit, and Allison holding her ground on ...
NORA SAKAVIC

Make them love you, make them hate you, I don't care. Just make them look at you.
NORA SAKAVIC

It's not the world that's cruel," Neil said. "It's the people in it.
NORA SAKAVIC

Keys meant Neil had explicit permission to be here and do what he liked. They meant he belonged.
NORA SAKAVIC

Remember this feeling. This is the moment you stop being the rabbit.
NORA SAKAVIC

Do you know how many ways love can hit you? So it makes you happy, or miserable? It makes you sick i...
NORA ROBERTS

He ran until he couldn't breathe, but he never stopped hurting.
NORA SAKAVIC

…the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

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