It had better be quirky or perverse or thoughtful enough so that you hit some chord in them. I mean we've all read pieces where we thought, 'Oh, who gives a damn.'
Nora EphronIt's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.
Nora EphronThat's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.
Nora EphronWhen something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.
Nora Ephron