Best Quotes by Nora Ephron (Top 10)

  1. Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
  2. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.
  3. When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.
  4. Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
  5. I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.
  6. When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.
  7. I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.
  8. I don't think any day is worth living without thinking about what you're going to eat next at all times.
  9. When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
  10. Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.

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