Some of Nora Ephron's Her Best Lines

by The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nora Ephron's characters were highly verbal and hyper-analytical. They had a head for the absurd and a heart for romance. But above all, they were funny.

The big New Year's Eve speech Crystal delivers to Ryan at the end of "When Harry Met Sally ...." This is vintage Ephron in a nutshell.

"I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me like I'm nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it's not because I'm lonely, and it's not because it's New Year's Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

From 1998's "You've Got Mail," which Ephron wrote and directed, when Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are walking through a farmer's market ruling out the people they won't date.

Hanks: "I could never be with someone who likes Joni Mitchell. 'It's clouds illusions I recall/I really don't know clouds at all.' What does that mean? Is she a pilot? Is she taking flying lessons? It must be a metaphor for something but I don't know what it is."

The last lines of "You've Got Mail," after all the gesturing and posturing, the sabotage and mistaken identity, they meet in Riverside Park and Ryan finally realizes that Hanks has been her secret email pal all along.

Hanks: "Don't cry, Shopgirl. Don't cry."

Ryan: "I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly."

 From 1993's "Sleepless in Seattle," which Ephron also wrote and directed. Tom Hanks' son has called into a late-night talk radio show for him. As he explains what was so special about his late wife, Ryan is listening in her car across the country.

"Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they just meant we were supposed to be together. And I knew it. And I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home, only to no home I'd ever known. I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like ... magic.

gratitude

things i am grateful for today...

1. bubble baths

2. baby just finished her spring term at her nursery. her teacher sent us all her artworks that she had accumulated for the past three months. it's a delight perusing them!

3. kid-friendly brunches. we celebrated father's day with a family brunch in mazina at the address hotel in dubai marina. there were a lot of activities for the wee ones - face painting, nintendo gaming, bouncy castle jumping. there were also a variety of food choices, from asian to british fares. i am so thankful that we can enjoy this.

4. breakfasts where it is 40 degrees outside, but inside you get this view. whoa, thanks ski dubai!

these might be trivial for most of you, but i am really, really loving the universe now.

gratitude

i've read somewhere that keeping a gratitude journal is one way to enrich one's life by appreciating what you have and by actually getting rid of envy as you are already grateful of what you have.

i am starting a gratitude list of three things i am grateful for. knowing myself i am not sure if i can keep this daily. when there is a boost of overwhelming gratitude, i will surely write my thank-you's to the higher-ups.

from the mundane to the huge ones, expect me to write them down! i actually had posts already tagged as "things i am grateful for," but these mostly focused on our trips together as a family and as a couple.

i'm hoping, though, that this will not just be a simple counting of blessings, but that this will make me appreciate life more, and be aware of the positive aspects in my life. the secret is in motion? :-)

so here goes...

things i am grateful for today...

1. i am grateful that mr t and i wake up to this amazing view everyday!



2. i am grateful that mr t only feeds us healthy stuff :-) he even makes an effort to decorate the food!

3. i am grateful that baby is thriving in our community.

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so universe, here's a massive...

music

i am in senti mode today.

and i also struck gold with finding these music gems.

this video is something that i wished i was part of. it's nostalgic, and it makes me want to go to the vatican again.

http://youtu.be/ghdmveZdhR0

i found this next video through tiborce's blog, and it makes me reminisce about my high school/college days. gawd,  I miss my friends.

http://youtu.be/JocM61FVZy0

and this one makes me really, really wistful.

http://youtu.be/ldXFxtqKGmU

best lyrics ever.

so, so you think you can tell heaven from hell,
blue skies from pain.
can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
a smile from a veil?
do you think you can tell?
and did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
hot ashes for trees?
hot air for a cool breeze?
cold comfort for change?
and did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
how I wish, how I wish you were here.
we're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
running over the same old ground.
what have you found? The same old fears.
wish you were here.

it's june!

i can't believe it.it's already june, and i've just finished posting about our christmas holidays.

time does pass when you are a working mom. no offense to the sahm's, i know you are doing one heck of a job.and i salute you for that.but to each his own naman, di ba?

baby has started with nursery.and it is going ok,so far.at first she did not want to go and actually proclaimed she disliked it.but after two weeks,she suddenly decided she liked it.

her school reports are positively glowing with praises.so she must really love it, and we are not just imagining her love for education.