Nora Ephron, on parents
“You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were or back into the people they used to be. But they’re never going to. And even though you know they’re never going to, you still hope they will.”
— Nora Ephron in “My Life as an Heiress,” New Yorker, 10/11/2010
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