{"author":"Nora Ephron","author_id":"Nora+Ephron","total_quotes":63,"quotes":[{"text":"In my sex fantasy  nobody ever loves me for my mind.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["passion"],"id":2088,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"},{"text":"The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you heat the butter very hot and put just a very few mushrooms into the frying pan, they come out nice and brown and crispy, whereas if the butter is only moderately hot and you crowd the mushrooms, they get all mushy and wet. Every time I make mushrooms I think of him. There was another man in my life when I was younger who taught me to put sour cream into scrambled eggs, and since I never ever put sour cream into scrambled eggs I never really think of him at all.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["eggs","man","mushrooms"],"id":3122,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"},{"text":"I remember thinking that no one had ever told me how much I would love my child; now, of course, I realized something else no one tells you: that a child is a grenade. When you have a baby, you set off an explosion in your marriage, and when the dust settles, your marriage is different from what it was.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["children","marriage","parenting"],"id":6344,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"},{"text":"One good thing I'd like to say about divorce is that it sometimes makes it possible for you to be a much better wife to your next husband because you have a place for your anger - it's not directed at the person you're currently with.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["good","wife","husband "],"id":11473,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"},{"text":"Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["summer","never","like "],"id":15398,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"},{"text":"The truth is, most of the genuinely tragic episodes of lost food are things that are somewhat outside the reach of the home cook, even a home cook like me who has been known to overreach from time to time.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["food"],"id":25594,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["new-york-city"],"id":33115,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["reading"],"id":49359,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["bikini","humorous","skinny"],"id":51618,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"},{"text":"People always say that once it goes away, you forget the pain. It’s a cliché of childbirth: you forget the pain. I don’t happen to agree. I remember the pain. What you really forget is love. Divorce seems as if it will last forever, and then suddenly, one day, your children grow up, move out, and make lives for themselves, and except for an occasional flare, you have no contact at all with your ex-husband. The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it’s over.","author":"Nora Ephron","tags":["divorce"],"id":55454,"author_id":"Nora+Ephron"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}