When Harry Met Sally by Nora Ephron Read Free Book Online

spy a lamppost—and she looked out the window and she saw this man and this woman with these two little kids, the man had one of the kids on his shoulders, and Alice’s little girl said, “I spy a family,” and I started to cry. You know, I just started crying. And I went home, and I said, “The thing is, Joe, we never do fly off to Rome on a moment’s notice.”
    HARRY     And the kitchen floor?
    SALLY     Not once. It’s this very cold, hard Mexican ceramic tile. Anyway, we talked about it for a long time, and I said, this is what I want, and he said, well, I don’t, and I said, well, I guess it’s over, and he left. And the thing is, I feel really fine. I am over him. I mean, I really am over him. That was it for him, that was the most he could give, and every time I think about it, I’m more and more convinced I did the right thing.
    HARRY     Boy, you sound really healthy.
    SALLY     
(not totally)
    Yeah.
    CUT TO :
    EXT . 77 TH STREET WALK—DUSK

Harry and Sally walking together. The sun is setting
.
    SALLY     At least I got the apartment.
    HARRY     That’s what everybody says to me, too. But really, what’s so hard about finding an apartment? What you do is, you read the obituary column. Yeah. You find out who died, go to the building, and then you tip the doorman. What they can do to make it easier is to combine the obituaries with the real estatesection, see, and then you have, “Mr. Klein died today, leaving a wife, two children, and a spacious three-bedroom apartment with a wood-burning fireplace.”
    Sally laughing. A nice moment
.
    HARRY     You know, the first time we met, I really didn’t like you that much—
    SALLY     
I
didn’t like
you
.
    HARRY     Yeah, you did. You were just so uptight then. You’re much softer now.
    SALLY     You know, I hate that kind of remark. It sounds like a compliment, but really it’s an insult.
    HARRY     Okay, you’re still as hard as nails.
    SALLY     I just didn’t want to sleep with you, so you had to write it off as a character flaw instead of dealing with the possibility that it might have something to do with you.
    HARRY     What’s the statute of limitations on apologies?
    SALLY     Ten years.
    HARRY     Ooh. I can just get in under the wire.
    Sally smiles, then after a beat, she makes the smallest of moves
.
    SALLY     Would you like to have dinner with me sometime?
    HARRY     
(not knowing quite how to take this)
    Are we becoming friends now?
    SALLY     Well,
(this is not what she meant)
yeah.
    HARRY     Great. A woman friend. You know, you may be the first attractive woman I’ve not wanted to sleep with in my entire life.
    SALLY     
(slightly rejected)
    That’s wonderful, Harry.
    As they continue to walk along, we—
    FADE OUT .
    FADE IN:
    DOCUMENTARY FOOTAGE

An OLDER COUPLE on a love seat
.
    FOURTH MAN     We were both born in the same hospital.
    FOURTH WOMAN     
(overlaps)
    In 1921.
    FOURTH MAN     Seven days apart.
    FOURTH WOMAN     In the same hospital.
    FOURTH MAN     We both grew up one block away from each other.
    FOURTH WOMAN     
(overlaps)
    We both lived in tenements.
    FOURTH MAN     On the Lower East Side.
    FOURTH WOMAN     On Delancey Street.
    FOURTH MAN     My family moved to the Bronx when I was ten.
    FOURTH WOMAN     
(overlaps)
    He lived on Fordham Road.
    FOURTH MAN     Hers moved when she was eleven.
    FOURTH WOMAN     
(overlaps)
    I lived on 183rd Street.
    FOURTH MAN