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“I built this whole life — I’m building a whole house — just to prove to everyone I don’t love you anymore. That I don’t need you, that I don’t want you, that I don’t miss you.”
— Cole Lockhart, The Affair, The Affair Season 3: Episode 8
Tagged: Love, Spite, resentment, Revenge
“At some point fate takes over a story and even the author himself loses control.”
— Yvonne, The Affair, Season 2: Episode 3
Tagged: Writing, Authorship, writing process
“She was sex...the very definition of it, the reason the word was invented.”
— Sharr White, The Affair, Season 2: Episode 5
Tagged: Sex, Sexy, Goddess
“You fell in love with her darkness.”
— Athena Bailey, The Affair, Season 2: Episode 6
Tagged: Love, Darkness
“Sex became a way of feeling things without talking to anybody.”
— Alison Bailey, The Affair, Season 2: Episode 6
Tagged: Sex, Feeling
“Noah: Did you fuck my wife?

Max: Your ex-wife.”
— Noah Solloway, The Affair, Season 2: Episode 11
Tagged: Adultery, Wife
“One day you will regret choosing him over me.”
— Athena Bailey, The Affair, Season 1: Episode 5
Tagged: Regret
“Maybe your age is catching up to your legendary hard-on.”
— Helen Solloway, The Affair, Season 1: Episode 7
“Do you know how long it has been since someone dared mix high art with good old-fashioned fucking?”
— Rodney Callahan, The Affair, Season 2: Episode 9
Tagged: Art, Fucking
“I think people see what they want to see in other people.”
— Helen Solloway, The Affair, The Affair Season 3: Episode 8
Tagged: Perception
“After someone dies, I think we want to tell ourselves a story of how it was our fault, because at least it gives us some control.”
— Sarah Treem, Sharr White, The Affair, The Affair Season 3: Episode 10
Tagged: Death, Mourning, Responsibility
“Maybe nothing's a mistake. Maybe it's all just fucking meaningless, all these decisions that we make ourselves sick over and these choices we think are so important. Well, don't take this the wrong way...but I never want to see you again.”
— Noah Solloway, The Affair, Season 2: Episode 12
Tagged: Meaninglessness, Futility
“I never cheated on you. I came close. I never did. I had this stupid idea that you and I could make a new start together and all the pain we caused everybody else, it was for a reason because we were meant to be together. You were my one true love. I knew it was naive and people thought I was crazy, but I just didn't want to be one of those suckers who gets trapped in a miserable marriage and they're too fucking terrified to leave or they're drinking too much or leaving a leading a double life. I wanted to be brave and make a choice and be happy. And yes, it was hard, and yes, I hurt people, people I really love. I never thought it would be all pointless.”
— Noah Solloway, The Affair, Season 2: Episode 12
Tagged: Cheating, Pain
“Whitney: So were you really screwing my dad? 


Alison: Yes.


Whitney: Why? He’s so old and your husband’s so hot.”
— Whitney Solloway, The Affair, Season 1: Episode 10
Tagged: Flippant
“Well, fuck the real Paris. Let's go buy some cheese.”
— Noah Solloway, The Affair, The Affair Season 3: Episode 10
Tagged: paris, Cheese
“I had an affair. I wouldn't recommend it. It didn't turn out well.”
— Alison Bailey, The Affair, The Affair Season 3: Episode 8
Tagged: Affairs, Cheating, Why Cheating Sucks
“You've been so good to me. A few months ago, I was on the brink, and now, thanks to you, I'm OK.”
— Noah Solloway, The Affair, The Affair Season 3: Episode 10
Tagged: You Fixed Me, Love, Healing Relationships
“Omar Bradley basically won the war for us. So do we judge him for his absence for his family and his infidelity, or do we just let that slide, because what does it matter at the end? The guy stopped Hitler. There's a certain type of man that history reveres. We see it over and over. Jefferson, Hamilton, Picasso, Hemingway, all of them cheaters. It's like they have this bald desire this willingness to take whatever they want, that ends up making them remarkable.”
— Noah Solloway, The Affair, Season 2: Episode 10
Tagged: Cheating, Psychology of Men, Drive, Complex Moral Portraits
“I believe love is a kind of faith. And when two people both believe, something very powerful happens.”
— Noah Solloway, The Affair, Season 2: Episode 8
Tagged: What Is Love?, Magic of Love
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