The one thing I would like to get across about my whole feeling regarding high school is how I was when I was fifteen. Gawky. Always a hem hanging down, or strap loose, or a pimple on my chin. I… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of tossing capers into just… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves minor atrocities on both sides to a nice, neat, simple one where one person has done something so horrible and unforgivable that the other person is immediately absolved of all the low-grade sins of sloth, envy,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share
“The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
'When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. When you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.' — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I wish he were better at hailing taxis than I am; on the other hand, I realize that expectation is culturally conditioned, utterly foolish,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
You can't call yourself a feminist if you don't believe in the right to abortion. — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out.” — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“If I was home alone at night, I cooked myself an entire meal from one of these cookbooks. Then I sat down in front… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you heat the… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
