I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections

by Nora Ephron

On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can’t remember it, who can?

You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be. But they’re never going to. And even though you know they’re never going to, you still hope they will.