Nora Ephron Quotes

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.

I don't want to sell myself short. You hurt your spouse, not so much by the infidelity, but by the negative feelings about yourself that you bring home.

A lot of people have experienced a relationship betrayal, even if it was when they were 16 and with their first love.

Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.

Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.

Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on.

The cheating was sweet, but my heart is beat. Don't tear it apart, please by-pass this heart.

I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

As you can imagine this is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.

If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier -- it means he's a scumbag.

Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out, and they're working it out on your time and with your heart.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

My so-called faith went up in flames Till I believed in all your lies, For the life of me I don't know why. They got you wrong , You're not that strong. I don't belong here!

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

Fantasy and reality often overlap.

So many I considered, closest to me,turned on a dime and sold me out dutifully,although that knife was chipping away at me,they turned their eyes away and went home to sleep.