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Who cared that he couldn't spell? She was a good-enough speller for both of them. With luck, their children would take after her.
Delia Ephron Quotes: Who cared that he couldn't
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.
Delia Ephron Quotes: In Los Angeles, by the
Am I being too critical? That's what happens when you feel shitty about yourself. You turn into a bitch.
Delia Ephron Quotes: Am I being too critical?
Children are a house's enemy. They don't mean to be - they just can't help it. It's their enthusiasm, their energy, their naturally destructive tendencies.
Delia Ephron Quotes: Children are a house's enemy.
One quarter of what you buy will turn out to be mistakes.
Delia Ephron Quotes: One quarter of what you
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.
Delia Ephron Quotes: Preparing for the worst is
In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones.
Delia Ephron Quotes: In your standard-issue family, of
There is something fantastic about getting divorced. Everyone should do it to experience the extraordinary sense of freedom after being in marriage jail.
Delia Ephron Quotes: There is something fantastic about
If you think about something else hard enough, you can mostly control your feelings.
Delia Ephron Quotes: If you think about something
I love it that I'm standing alone, it doesn't bother me, actually I prefer it, actually I don't give a shit. I am a superior being in an alien world. No, in a world of red-faced aliens. That thought tickled her, but only for a minute. Mainly she longed to feel that she wasn't invisible.
Delia Ephron Quotes: I love it that I'm
To the night version of her (mother) I owe free-floating anxiety. I am no longer a child in an unsafe home, but anxiety became habit. My brain is conditioned. I worry. I recheck everything obsessively. Is the seat belt fastened, are the reservations correct, is my passport in my purse? Have I done something wrong? Have I said something wrong? I'm sorry - whatever happened must be my fault. Is everyone all right, and if they aren't, how can I step in? That brilliant serenity prayer: God give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. To all the children of alcoholics I want to say, Good luck with that. If I don't do it myself, it won't get done (this belief is often rewarded in this increasingly incompetent world). Also, I panic easily. I am not the person you want sitting in the exit row of an airplane. And distrust. Just in general, distrust. Irony.
Irony, according to the dictionary, is the use of comedy to distance oneself from emotion. I developed it as a child lickety-split. Irony was armor, a way to stick it to Mom. You think you can get me? Come on, shoot me, aim that arrow straight at my heart. It can't make a dent because I'm wearing irony.
Delia Ephron Quotes: To the night version of
I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.
Delia Ephron Quotes: I'm planning to give up
As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.
Delia Ephron Quotes: As complicated as joint custody
God, secrets could simply do you in.
Delia Ephron Quotes: God, secrets could simply do
In the family I grew up in, being called boring was like being called an ax murderer.
Delia Ephron Quotes: In the family I grew
It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.
Delia Ephron Quotes: It consists entirely of people
If you are a stepparent, rush right out and get yourself a dog. Because it's very nice to have someone in the house that loves you.
Delia Ephron Quotes: If you are a stepparent,
Someone will always tell you what you want to hear.
Delia Ephron Quotes: Someone will always tell you
Writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.
Delia Ephron Quotes: Writing is how I understand
She has bitten into a crisp juicy apple and wondered if the bite and the thought were connected
one never knew what went together, and seemingly random acts could be cosmically related.
Delia Ephron Quotes: She has bitten into a
For me, having it all - if one wants to define it at all - is the magical time when what you want and what you have match up.
Delia Ephron Quotes: For me, having it all
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