“For a long period of time, you go through this period of swearing you will never make the same mistakes as your parents. But then you realize that they didn’t really make mistakes. They just did what had to be done. That’s just the way it works out sometimes.” – Tom Hanks, pg. 42
“How romantic to learn that your best-friend-turned-lover adores you for you. Your personalities. Your eccentricities.” – pg. 83
“It takes courage to love. And there’s always going to be problems. And you have to have a certain faith that the problems will be solved.” – Shanley, pg. 101
“You just have to make it up as you go along and hope you don’t screw it up too horribly.” – Nora Ephron, pg. 107
“[Tom] thought Sleepless wasn’t so much about the fate as the idea that ‘one person’s second chance can be the other person’s first.'” – pg. 132
“I don’t think that there’s a million people you can fall in love with… I actually think to make a great match is a very lucky thing.” – Delia Ephron, pg. 174
“There’s no one who’s more romantic than a cynic.” – Nora Ephron, pg. 175
“The idea that there is someone out there that maybe no one else can touch, for you.” – David Word, pg. 198
“Many of life’s flops, like marriages, are obvious in retrospect. If you knew it, you wouldn’t do it, but you didn’t, so you did.” – Delia Ephron, pg. 212
“The older you get, you’re going to realize that things change and there’s not very much that you can do about it.” – Nora Ephron, pg. 269
“The Ephron woman makes us feel less alone in a man’s world – and inspires us not to give up.” – pg. 295
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