Nice place ya got here. Cozy. Woodsy. So how you been, Ali?

Cole

It's fiction, Harry.

Noah

Noah: I can't afford you, John.
Helen: I'm paying.

Max: Helen?
Helen: Hmmm?
Max: You're too nice.
Helen: I know.

Margaret, my father painted this fucking painting. Now if you don't get out of my way, I swear to God I'll push you down that fucking flight of stairs behind you and I'll tell the coroner it was a fucking accident!

Noah

I'll get you out of this. I promise. Do you believe me?

Alison

Noah: Look, whatever this is about, just let my family walk out of here, OK?
Cole: What do you think this is about, asshole? You fucked my wife, didn't you? Didn't you?! Yes or no?!
Noah: I did.
Cole: Well, how would you feel if I fucked your wife?
Alison: Cole, please..
Cole: Stay out of this.
Alison: Put the gun..
Cole: I said shut the fuck up! There's only one thing left in this world that I still care about, and that's HER. Does that mean anything to you? Does anything mean anything to you? Does she? Does she? [waves gun around]

Whitney: So, were you really screwing my dad?
Alison: Yes.
Whitney: Why? He's so old and your husband's so hot.

Alison: I just want you to have something you love.
Cole: I love you.
Alison. I don't know how to fix what's broken between us, Cole. I don't think it's fixable.
Cole: OK. What if we go see another therapist?
Alison: It's not going to bring him back.
Cole: I know that.
Alison: That is the only thing that can fix this for me.
Cole: No...
Alison: I look at you and I see his face.
Cole: People survive this. You know that. It's incredibly hard, but they heal. They heal, together.
Alison: I don't want to. It's too hard. I don't wanna do it.

If I had known that you were here, I would have waited in the car.

Mary Kate

I feel like he could provide you with a very healing sexual experience, sweetie.

Athena

Cherry: We just lost this ranch. We're all going to be homeless at the end of the month and I can give you my vow, my solemn vow, you will never see him again. He will never be anywhere near your daughter anymore. Please?
Helen: OK. This is way too fucked up.

The Affair Quotes

Noah: I, I was a happy man back then. Proud of my family. My first book had just come out. Everything I dreamed I'd achieve as a young man, I'd done it.
Det; Jeffries: But.
Noah: That's just it. There is no but. When I look back, I can't tell you why it happened.

Noah: When's she going to college?
Helen: Twelve years.