Someday This Will Be a Funny Story: The Quotable Nora Ephron

by Nora Ephron

From “the queen of quips” (The New York Times) comes an inspiring and hilarious quote collection about everything that matters—love and heartbreak, good food and good company, aging well and writing well

We all want a best friend like Nora frank but forgiving, wry but caring, someone who knows not only what to say but how to say it.

Don’t know what to wear? “Everything matches black, especially black.”

Trouble in love? “You can never know the truth of anyone’s marriage, including your own.”

Searching for a new belief system? “My religion is Get Over It.”

Here is the best of Nora for every season of life, across her storied career, from her early days in the news media to becoming the author of a cult classic novel, to her unexpected turn as a legendary Hollywood writer. Nora saw it all, and with a wicked sense of humor and shrewd intellect, she made it all deliciously funny. Filled with unforgettable lines, this is a celebration of Nora’s singular wit and generosity—start at the beginning, or flip to any page for instant delight.

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor, Essays

93 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 10, 2026

About the author

Nora Ephron was an American journalist, film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and blogger.

She was best known for her romantic comedies and is a triple nominee for the Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay; for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle. She sometimes wrote with her sister, Delia Ephron.

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

˚ʚ♡ɞ˚ This was a fun and short read! This book is just quotes that were taken from Nora Ephron’s other books. I didn’t relate to most of it, and I didn’t agree with some of it, but it was still fun to see what Ephron thought and felt about certain things like love, food, and fashion. I ADORE her movies, so this was such a treat for me! 🩷

Here are some quotes that I particularly liked:

“My experience is that ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about’ is code for ‘I see what you mean, but if you think you’re going to trap me into engaging on this subject, you’re crazy.’”

“Here’s the thing about dessert–you want it to last. You want to savor it. Dessert is so delicious. It’s so sweet. It’s so bad for you so much of the time. And, as with all bad things, you want it to last as long as possible.”

“My religion is get over it.”

“Be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

εїз Thank you to Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor | Knopf and NetGalley for providing the arc in exchange for an honest review! All opinions and statements are my own. This book will be available on 03/10/2026! εїз

[Mai H.]

Memoir March TBR

Non-fiction November TBR

📱 Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf

[Denise Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very quick read. Only 116 pages and most pages are only a few lines. Some of her quotes or thoughts were so relatable and others just fun to read.

[Baillie ♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC of this one!

This was a cute little book. While I do enjoy Nora Ephron's films, this book wasn't anything groundbreaking, hence the rating. However, it would make a cute coffee table or gifted book!

[Fareya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick, fun and entertaining, this cute little book is a collection of quotes from Nora Ephron’s books. It would make an excellent gift for anyone who loves her movies, and wants a quick recap of her witty and hilarious but comforting words. Obviously, I don't agree with them all, but there are some that hit just right.

Here are my personal favorites -

“Be the heroine of your life, not the victim”

"My experience is that 'I don't know what you're talking about' is code for 'I see what you mean, but if you think you're going to trap me into engaging on this subject, you're crazy.'

"I almost felt sorry for myself. But it was time for lunch."

**A free copy was provided by Knopf. All opinions are my own.**

[Ashley Tovar · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really fun, entertaining, quick read. Perfect for something light, fast & humorous. Simply but very neat to read through.

Big thanks to Netgalley & the publisher for allowing me to enjoy this.

[Demetri · Rating 4 out of 5]

The City, the Neck, the MetroCard Bag – How “Someday This Will Be a Funny Story” Preserves Nora Ephron’s New York Religion
By Demetris Papadimitropoulos | March 4th, 2026


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New York Arrival – “Intermission” Ends: A lone figure at a dawn crosswalk, steam and skyline rising like a promise – the city that finally begins the real life.

Nora Ephron never pretended to be a mystic. She believed in a handful of secular sacraments: a good sentence, a decent meal, the right shade of black, and the saving grace of telling the story first. In “Someday This Will Be a Funny Story: The Quotable Nora Ephron,” a posthumous compilation edited with reverent briskness, the reader is offered Ephron in concentrate: not the whole cake, not even a generous slice, but a tin of her best frostings, folded into one another until the sugar turns into something like instruction.

A quote collection is an odd kind of biography. It suggests that a life can be remembered not through chronology but through cadence – the recurring turn of mind, the private tic that becomes, through repetition, a signature. Ephron’s signature has always been that she is generous with herself only insofar as she gets to control the terms. “Everything is copy” is the familiar Ephron law, but this book demonstrates how thoroughly she lived inside it: humiliation repurposed as entertainment, confession delivered with a half-smile that keeps pity at bay, worldly pain converted into a line that you can carry in your pocket. It is, in other words, a portable Ephron – which is exactly what the book promises, and exactly what it delivers, with enough sparkle to make you forget you are reading an artifact and not having lunch with someone who knows precisely what to order and precisely what not to forgive.

The structure is thematic, not chronological: New York, reading and writing, parents and children, marriage and divorce, food, style and aging, and a final section that might as well be titled “How Not to Lose Your Mind.” Each category functions as a room in the same apartment. You walk through and recognize the furniture: the MetroCard bag (yellow and horrible blue, matching nothing, therefore matching everything) and the city skyline doing its twinkling thing; the familiar disdain for egg-white omelets; the deadpan dread of a neck that tells the truth when the face has learned to lie.  Ephron’s genius is that she can make these details feel like jokes and, in the same breath, make them feel like a philosophy.

If the book has a central claim, it is that the small pleasures are not small – they are the ballast. One of Ephron’s most enduring talents, across “I Feel Bad About My Neck” and “I Remember Nothing” and the bright, bruised domestic battleground of “Heartburn,” has been her insistence that the “trivial” is where life actually takes place. In the current era – a time when everyone is asked to have a position on everything, and the internet has turned private experience into a public performance – Ephron’s commitment to the ordinary can read like a kind of resistance. She is not interested in personal growth as a virtue display. She is interested in what works: butter and flour and stock becoming something reliably thick; the comfort of mashed potatoes when you are feeling blue; the reminder that dessert should last because it is delicious, and bad things should be savored as long as possible, precisely because they are bad and therefore forbidden by some imaginary tribunal of virtue.


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“Everything Is Copy” – Humiliation Becomes Authorship: Under a late-night glow, the writer turns a banana-peel stumble into a sentence – control reclaimed one line at a time.

“New York City,” the opening section, is pure origin myth. Ephron’s New York is not merely a place but an inevitability, the site of her self-invention. She dreamed of it as a child and arrived to find herself “right” – the city as exciting, magical, fraught with possibility, and, crucially, full of people she was dying to know. There is, in these pages, the Ephron romance of the skyline, the vegetables, the street rush, and the hunt for the world’s greatest chocolate chip cookie. But there is also the wry acknowledgment that she has “made a religion” out of her neighborhood partly because she has no other religion, which is both a joke and a quiet statement of secular faith. This is Ephron at her most winning: devotional without piety, ecstatic without naïveté.

Then comes “Reading and Writing,” the book’s spinal column. It begins with the chilly reminder that “freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one,” and it proceeds to dismantle sentimental ideas about literature as salvation. Writing, for Ephron, is not catharsis but control. The story is not a confession booth; it is a steering wheel. When she riffs on “Everything is copy,” she isn’t offering a Hallmark motto. She is describing a strategy for survival: if you slip on the banana peel and people laugh, you are the object; if you tell the story of slipping, you become the author of the laughter. The difference matters. In 2026, when reputations can be remade or ruined in a single clip and everyone has learned to narrate themselves defensively, Ephron’s instinct looks less like personal quirk and more like prophecy: tell it first, tell it better, and you will not be stranded in someone else’s version.

She is also, in this section, frankly in love with reading. Ephron’s tribute to books – reading as escape and the opposite of escape, as grist, as bliss – feels almost extravagant now, in a time when “deep reading” is treated like an endangered species. Her metaphor of “the rapture of the deep,” borrowed from diving, is a perfect Ephron move: funny because it’s unexpected, true because it’s precise. You surface from a great book disoriented, oxygen levels wrong, body struggling to adapt. Anyone who has been pulled out of a novel by an alarm notification will recognize the feeling in reverse. 

“Parents and Children” is less frequently cited in casual Ephron mythology, but it may be the section most likely to disarm a reader who thinks Ephron is all quips and no tenderness. Her parenthood lines carry the hard truth of love as permanent worry: your children survive you, you survive them, and the worrying is forever. She is also ruthless about the sentimental rituals we build around absence. Do not leave your child’s room as a shrine, she insists. Turn it into a gym, a den, a guest room – anything but a museum of longing. The joke – that leaving it intact may encourage your child to return, and you do not want this – is classic Ephron, the humor disguising the sharp recognition that nostalgia can be a trap.


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The Empty Nest Room – No Shrine Allowed: A child’s room half-packed, half-remembered – nostalgia boxed up and repurposed into the next chapter.

Then we enter the book’s most bruised room: “Marriage and Divorce.” Here Ephron is not a rom-com deity but a realist with a scalpel. “You can never know the truth of anyone’s marriage, including your own,” she writes – a line that feels both liberating and bleak, depending on what day you read it. Her take on infidelity is almost bureaucratic: it doesn’t work, because you have only so much energy, and if you spread it around, everyone gets confused and you can’t remember which story you told to whom. It is funny, but it is also an exact description of how lies rot from the inside. She understands the lure of betrayal not just as pain but as relief – the perverse pleasure of moving from a complicated relationship where both parties have committed minor atrocities to a simple narrative where one person has done something unforgivable and the other is immediately absolved. Ephron’s great theme is that story is not merely how we communicate our lives; it is how we justify them.

The section’s most chilling truth is also the simplest: once you find out he’s cheated, you have to keep finding it out, over and over, until you’ve degraded yourself so completely that there’s nothing left to do but walk out. She does not romanticize this degradation. She does not turn it into empowerment theater. She simply names it. In a contemporary culture that often demands that women “heal” on schedule and emerge with an Instagram caption about gratitude, Ephron’s refusal to polish the wound feels bracing. She offers no tidy arc – just the knowledge that survival sometimes looks like leaving, and that leaving can be both devastation and freedom.

And then, like a friend who notices you’re close to tears and orders another drink, the book gives you “Food.” This is not an intermission; it is the central Ephron argument that pleasure is serious business. Her contempt for egg-white omelets is not just culinary snobbery but moral critique: deprivation marketed as virtue. She suspects the “main course” is always disappointing and wonders if it’s a metaphor – which it is, of course, for marriage, ambition, and the endless human desire to believe that the central thing will satisfy us more than the sweet thing at the end. Her dessert philosophy – you want it to last, you want to savor it – is funny, but it is also a manifesto against the Protestant urge to ration joy.

Cooking, in Ephron’s hands, becomes a form of certainty. Melt butter, add flour, add hot stock, and it will thicken. In a world where those of us who want certainty must settle for crossword puzzles, a sauce’s obedience to chemistry feels almost holy. This is Ephron’s secular theology again: the stove as altar, the recipe as proof that not everything is chaos. Even her cabbage strudel epiphany, which begins as time travel – tasting again as turning back the clock, having the consequences of a mistake erased – ends with Ephron’s signature deflation: it was many things, it was all things, it was nothing at all, but mostly, it was cabbage strudel. Transcendence denied, pleasure retained. 


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Marriage Shatters – The Moment the Dream Breaks: Two glasses, one untouched, and a cracked photo in lamplight – absence doing all the talking.

“Style, Beauty, and Getting Older” is where Ephron’s comic voice becomes a kind of witness. Few American writers have been so honest about the indignities of aging without turning honesty into either despair or forced serenity. Ephron cannot stand people who insist it’s great to be old. She is not interested in being sage. She is interested in being accurate. Our faces are lies and necks are the truth, she reminds us; the neck is a dead giveaway. In an era of filtered faces, injectables, and the simultaneous commodification and policing of “natural” beauty, this line lands with new bite. Hair dye, she notes, is the reason forty, fifty, and sixty don’t look like they used to. Not feminism, not yoga, not better living. Hair dye. Ephron’s humor here is not cruelty; it is clarity about the shared fictions we maintain in order to walk out the door with dignity.

Dignity, for Ephron, is not transcendence. It is maintenance. A purse that doesn’t immobilize your body. Eyeliner so you don’t have to hide behind canned food if you bump into someone who once rejected you. A blowout twice a week because it is cheaper than psychoanalysis and more uplifting. You can hear the laughter in these lines, but you can also hear the stubborn will to remain presentable to the world even when you are tired of the world. “Death is a sniper,” she says, and then, as if to keep death from becoming too grand, she jokes that not having to worry about your hair anymore might be the secret upside of death. The joke is the brace that keeps the sentence upright.

Finally, the book arrives at its closing credo: “How to Live, Love and When Necessary, Get Over It.” The key line – “My religion is Get Over It” – is both comic and profound. It is not a denial of pain; it is a refusal of stagnation. Ephron’s “Get Over It” is not a command to stop feeling but an insistence that feeling must eventually turn into motion. In a cultural moment obsessed with naming trauma, narrating trauma, monetizing trauma, and building an identity around trauma, Ephron’s stance can sound almost heretical. Failure, she notes, is supposed to be a growth experience; she wishes it were true. The main thing you learn from failure is that it is entirely possible you will have another one. There is no “lesson learned” montage. There is simply the knowledge that life will keep coming.

The most important passage in this final section is a litany of “Because” statements: because if I tell the story, I control the version; because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh than feel sorry for me; because if I tell the story, it doesn’t hurt as much; because if I tell the story, I can get on with it. This is Ephron’s whole ethos compressed into an incantation. It is also, for better and worse, the ethos of our times – a world where the first draft of your life is often written publicly, and control of the version can feel like the only remaining privacy. 


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Cooking as Certainty – Butter, Flour, Stock, and Control: Sauce thickens, flour dust settles, dessert waits – proof that some things still obey rules.

There is feminism here, but it is not sloganized. Ephron does not ask to be liked. She asks to be awake. Don’t underestimate antagonism toward women, she says. When people tell you not to take it personally, listen hard and please, take it personally. It is advice that reads differently in an era of backlash politics and online misogyny that can arrive as casually as an ad. She urges the reader not to be a lady, to break rules, to make trouble – especially on behalf of women. And she refuses the false split between politics and pleasure: she can care about war and demonstrate against it and also go to the movies incessantly and have her hair done once a week and cook dinner every night. This is the Ephron argument that still feels radical: a life can hold multitudes without apologizing for their contradiction.

If one wanted to place this book on a shelf of kindred spirits, it would sit comfortably beside “Fran Lebowitz: The Reader,” Dorothy Parker’s portable barbs, and the best of David Sedaris – books that treat wit not as garnish but as infrastructure. It also has a shadow kinship with Joan Didion’s late books, not because Ephron is elegiac and Didion is, but because both women understand that a sentence is a unit of consciousness – a way of imposing shape on experience. Where Didion looks at grief and finds the relentless logic of obsession, Ephron looks at aging and betrayal and finds the relentless logic of self-preservation. The difference is that Ephron, even at her bleakest, insists on a joke. The joke is her refusal to be swallowed.

As a physical object in the culture, “Someday This Will Be a Funny Story” is made for our fragmentary era. It is modular, browsable, quote-ready – the kind of book that will be photographed on nightstands and passed around at dinner parties and mined for captions. That might sound like faint praise, but it is not. Ephron’s sentences were built to survive extraction long before extraction became the dominant mode of reading. The danger of this format is that it can flatten a writer into “wisdom,” sanding off the messier textures that made the original work feel alive. And sometimes you can sense that smoothing here: the Nora preserved by this curation is brisk, wry, competent, in control – less prone to sprawl, less allowed to be strange. Legacy compilations, by nature, are acts of editorial biography. They choose the version that will last.

Still, the book’s pleasures are genuine and abundant. It makes you laugh in public. It makes you feel seen in private. It offers the odd consolation of competence: butter thickens, hair dye works, black matches everything, the story can be told, and telling it will not fix your life but might help you live it. In the end, the title is less a culinary joke than a philosophy of scale. Someday this will be a funny story. You can have more than one career. You can change your mind. You can be complicated and rejoice in the complication. You can be the heroine of your life, not the victim. You can take it personally and still go on.

If this were a newly written Ephron book, one might wish for a little more mess – a few more passages where the sentence does not land so cleanly and the reader is allowed to sit in uncertainty without a punchline escort. But that is not what this book is. It is a collection that honors Ephron’s deepest talent: the ability to keep moving without pretending that moving means forgetting. It is, at its best, a secular prayer book for people who do not pray: open to any page for instant steadiness, a reminder that life is short, the world is ridiculous, and dessert is not a sin but a strategy.

My rating of the book: 89/100.


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The Neck Tells the Truth – Maintenance, Mortality, and Moving On: Eyeliner at morning light, hair dye and a ticket stub nearby – a calm, undefeated ritual against time.

[Lillie Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a quick and entertaining! A perfect read if you’re looking for something light and easy. I think Nora Ephron is so witty and relatable and her writing is a true reflection of that. This book is made up of quotes from other works she’s done so sometimes it feels the context is missing but it’s pretty straightforward.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.

[Shereadbookblog · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nora Ephron was successful as an author, screenwriter, journalist, playwright, and film director. She left this world all too soon in 2012. For those new to her work, it includes such classics as When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, and Silkwood. This book is a collection of short essays based on her writings.

Her observations and words of wisdom are humorous, inspiring, meaningful, poignant, and incredibly enjoyable. Having read most of her books, I was reminded of how brilliantly witty she was. My only disappointment is that this collection could have been longer, as she had so many relatable and insightful thoughts to share.

Someday This Will Be a Funny Story would make a great gift to give a good friend or a significant woman in your life.

Thanks to @NetGalley and @aaKnopf for the DRC.

[Marne - Reader By the Water · Rating 5 out of 5]

I opened this thinking I’d read a few pages.

Reader, I did not.

I sat down and read the entire thing in one go.

SOMEDAY THIS WILL BE A FUNNY STORY is exactly what you want it to be. Little observations, a little sharp, a little comforting, very Nora Ephron.

This one got me:

“What I love about cooking is that after a hard day…if you melt butter and add flour and then hot stock, it will get thick…it’s a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure.”

There’s something deeply reassuring about that level of certainty.

Highly recommend if you want something you can dip into…or, apparently, inhale in one sitting.

Have you read any Nora Ephron? Or do you have a writer you turn to when you want something that just *feels good* to read?

🩷Huge thanks to @aaknopf for the gifted copy.

[Christine - Beach Reading is the Best Reading · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you to publisher Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House Publishing, for finished copy of this book through a goodreads giveaway.

Nora Ephron is a legend. She helped to shape the "rom-com" genre as we know it and had an incredible influence in the entertainment industry. She was also wise and funny while being both profound and straightforward. Most of the quotes in the book were well-known to me, but not all.

The reason for the 3⭐️ rating is because, while I love Ephron and her thoughts/words of wisdom, this was a short, basic book of quotes that felt underwhelming. It's a cute, small hardcover book that, in my opinion, isn't worth $20 (the retail price) for the 116 pages. I think it'd make a nice gift to a fan or someone who needs a little "pick me up"... if it's on sale!

[Victoria Morrison · Rating 3 out of 5]

Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the ARC. I had a hard time following the book at first, but some of the content was relatable or even made me laugh. Some of my fave quotes included: "Do you splurge or do you hoard? do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live twenty more years?" "Whenever I read a book I love, I start to remember all the other books that have sent me into rapture, and I can remember where I was living and the couch I was sitting on when I read them".

Some of the sections on divorce, marriage and NYC rubbed me the wrong way, but again it's Nora's interpretation of these things, not my own.

[ct lydon · Rating 4 out of 5]

“Love is homesickness.”

Nora Ephron offers a beautiful, witty reflection on how quickly life moves and how much meaning is tucked into its ordinary moments. Through essays on growing up, falling in love, marriage, children, food, and aging, Ephron proves she has lived many lives—and observed each of them with sharp insight and humor.

Her reflections are both deeply relatable and laugh-out-loud funny, balancing tenderness with her signature wit. This was a quick read, but one that lingers long after the final page, reminding the reader to pay attention, laugh often, and appreciate the fleeting nature of time.

Thank you to Knopf, Pantheon, and Vintage for this ARC—my very first one!

[Helen Wu ✨ · Rating 3 out of 5]

What stayed with me most were the questions about how we live and the quiet love letter to reading. The tension between splurging and saving, rushing and slowing down, felt very real. So did her belief that reading is both escape and grounding. That it makes us feel a little smarter, a little steadier, and more ourselves. Someday This Will Be a Funny Story is a quick read, but it carries a few gentle truths worth lingering on. Not every quote landed, but the ones that did reminded me why books matter in the first place. Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for the ARC.

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nora never minces words and this collection of essays and quips proves that yet again. Her musings on New York City in particular really struck a chord with me. "I'd known since I was a child that I was going to live in New York City eventually...and I'd turned out to be right." I loved that I could read just one page and be immediately transported to a place & time in my own life. Aren't we all just doing the same thing over and over? Trying to get by or even better, thrive? Making mistakes and loving people? This book would have a special place on my bookshelf.

Thank you to Netgalley for the advanced copy!

[Grinning Cat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nora Ephron was a writer who was very personal, very funny, and occasionally profound. The pieces in this book are snippets from her larger works and they range from one sentence long to one page long. There are moments of brilliance, like when she’s writing about being both feminist and feminine. And there are funny epigrams. But most of the pieces feel unfinished because they are taken out of context from longer pieces, and they often don’t translate well into the truncated form. If you want a few Ephron quotes, this is your book, but if you want something with a little more depth, try her longer works because she’s incredible.

[Kathleen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh, how I miss Nora Ephron! I am old enough to remember reading the books these quips were taken from. If you haven’t done that, you should. This brief book is full of her wit and wisdom. For instance, “Be the heroine of your life, not the victim” and “It’s only the sane people who are willing to admit they’re crazy” or “If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters.” Someday This Will Be a Funny Story IS a funny story and will make a great gift - after you read it, of course. 5 stars!

Thank you to NetGalley, Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor and Nora Ephron for this ARC.

[Lenore Kuipers-Cummins · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am not usually a fan of Nora Ephron. I did, however, enjoy her short quips on her different stages through life. She's written books, and is responsible for many best-selling movies. This isn't like anything else.
Even the inside covers are full of words: "What I wish I'd Known", and at the end, "What I will miss".This book has a copyright date of 2026. Recently thought thoughts on things like: Reading and Writing, Parents and Children, Marriage and Divorce, New York City, Food,Style, Beauty, and Getting Older, How to Live, Love, and When Necessary, Get Over It. All are separate chapters, and give you a lot to think about.

[Anastey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you Netgalley and Nora Ephron for sending me this advance review copy for free. I am leaving this review voluntarily.

This was a fun little read.

I really enjoyed reading all the quotes on various topics. They were witty and often hilarious. I can see this being a fun addition to a gift basket, or sitting out on a coffee table for people to pick up and read a few snippets.

Overall I loved it, and it kept me smiling the entire time I was reading. We can all use a little bit of snarky joy in our lives.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun book of Nora Ephron's quotes. Some of the quotes were relatable, funny, and light. The book is divided into seven sections. Some sections explore reading and writing, parenting, marriage and divorce, New York City, and more. I really liked the sections on reading and writing, New York City, and parenting. There were a few I couldn't relate to. I love that the quotes came from Nora Ephron's books. I've only read two of her books, but I definitely plan to read the rest.

*Thank you, NetGalley, for providing an arc in exchange for an honest review.*

[cass (cassreadsfiction) · Rating 5 out of 5]

"I almost felt sorry for myself. But it was time for lunch." Period.

If there is one thing I am drawn to, it's quotes. I have so many written down, so many saved, if my whole bookstagram account could just be book quotes, it would be. There's nothing new in here, but I enjoyed its bones.

Nora Ephron is a someone I've admired my whole life, her work is just incredible, in film, in writing, every avenue. While I don't hold dear too many works of hers book wise I found this collection pretty relatable at moments. A nice reminder to not take life so seriously.

[Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was everything that I hoped it would be! All of the best from the queen of love and comedy, Nora Ephron. This is not meant to be read in one sitting or on a Kindle; I envision buying the physical copy of this and having it on my coffee table to read and enjoy. Reading little tidbits here and there brought me so much joy! I loved each chapter and know that any reader will have a smile on their face when they pick this up too. *I received a complimentary e-ARC from the author/publishing company via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts & opinions are my own.

[Lexi · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this in one sitting! But Nora’s quotes and life reflections will be something I return to on occasion. Some of my favorite movies and stories were crafted by Nora Ephron. I enjoyed getting to know her more through this compilation. This book would make a great gift or coffee table book - something refreshing to flip through and read a few of her quotes from time to time.

Many thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read this ARC.

[Diana · Rating 5 out of 5]

This small book is a collection of quotes from several of Nora Ephron’s books. Memorable, still relevant and definitely relatable words of wisdom and wit, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Recommended especially for those who have enjoyed Ephron’s books and would make a great hostess - or other - gift.

Thank you to Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor and and NetGalley for an advanced copy of this ebook.

[Dea · Rating 5 out of 5]

The perfect coffee table book.

I wish I could quote this book, but I'll hold off until the release. This book can be read in one quick setting, but can be thumbed through for years. It's funny, relatable, and touching in all the best ways. Nora's words deserve to be treasured, and this is the perfect little collection.

Thank you, NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor, for the opportunity to read an advanced reader's copy in exchange for my honest feedback.

[Sharon M · Rating 5 out of 5]

Many thanks to NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage, and Anchor for gifting me a digital ARC of this collection of quotes by Nora Ephron. All opinions expressed in this review are my own - 5 stars!

Nora Ephron was the queen of looking at everyday life and giving us a reason to smile. I loved this little collection of her quotes - there will be something for everyone in here. You'll nod your head in understanding, smile, and maybe even tear up a bit. Because isn't that life? Loved it.

[Haley Carter · Rating 5 out of 5]

The quotable queen herself Nora Ephron. This book of quotes was taken from her other works, it was quick and easy and most of all fun.
While I never have lived in New York, I have visited, and I understand her quotes on it. It’s once of the best places I have ever been and honestly I long for New York almost daily.

The quote that will stick with me the most though is “Be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5 Stars

The quotes in the book are excellent and flow really well in each section. I even highlighted a few to share with friends. It’s the perfect length for a coffee-table or gift book. I gave it 4.5 stars because I wish there were photos of Nora throughout, or at the end. I would have loved to see Nora in different eras of her life—loving New York and wearing black!

[Emily | bookwhispererem · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nora Ephron’s writing is such a treasure, and this collection of quotes is no exception. It’ll have you laughing, reflecting, and finishing this short but fun collection in one sitting. With Ephron’s wit, intelligence, and endless charm, readers are in for an amusing ride!

Thank you to Nora Ephron, Knopf, & NetGalley for the ARC! All opinions are my own.

[Laurie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nora Ephron was such a talent. Her books and movies are iconic and fabulous. She passed away in 2012, unfortunately.

This book is a collection of essays from the best of Nora Ephron. She was witty and funny and so smart. You will laugh, you will cry. I enjoyed this book oh so much.


Thank you to NetGalley and Knopf for the ARC. This is my honest review.