The Affair
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I was coming back for her. [sighs] I drove across the entire country to come and get her, but I was too late. I am always too late.
Cole
Noah: You're not the only one who loved her.
Cole: Don't I know it.
Cole: I don't understand what I'm supposed to do with this. I don't think I can carry it.
Cherry: You can.
Cole: But what if I can't? Dad couldn't. And I get it now. Oh. To just go to sleep and never wake up in pain again.
Cherry: You can!
Cole: But. What. If. I. Can't?
Luisa: Nice turnout, huh?
Cole: A fucking clown car.
She would have hated this. Alison hated the ocean!
Cole
Noah: Oh, God.
Helen: You sound so old. You didn't used to groan when you sat down.
Noah: Why are we sitting down here? There's a perfectly good bench over there.
Helen: I want to be low to the ground.
Helen: God. Poor Alison. How was her funeral?
Cole: Oh, it was awful.
Helen: Right.
Cole: No. They uh, her mother had her cremated, so the ceremony was on the beach, and Cole grabbed the urn and ran away with it.
Helen: Are you fucking kidding me?
Ariel: Wow. Noah and Helen. Requiescat in pace.
Noah: Yeah, thanks.
Ariel: I thought you guys were gonna last forever. You were campus celebrities.
Noah: Yeah, well... Plans change.
Noah: Vic OK?
Helen: No. Vic is going to die.
Noah: I'm so sorry.
Helen: Me, too. I'm so very, very sorry. Did you ever meet our neighbor Sierra?
Noah: I don't think so, no.
Helen: She's pregnant. With Vic's baby.
Noah: What? [pulls Helen into an embrace] Oh, God. Helen. Look, Vic's not in his right mind now, you know?
Helen: Look, it's alright. I don't care. I don't care! I fucked her, too.
Noah: Really? [chuckles] And I missed it?
Noah: But I gotta say, if there is one person that I would want to be with when I die, if there is one person who would make me feel no matter what that I was safe and I was loved, it'd be you.
Helen: OK, that really IS the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
Noah: Stop, OK? Seriously, stop. That's enough. You are a lot of things, Helen. You are neurotic and overbearing and you're snobby and you're judgmental and superior, but you're...
Helen: Are you gonna stop?
Noah: But you are not broken. I don't know anyone who is tougher than you.
Helen: That might be the nicest thing you've ever said to me.
Ben: So, you're just waiting to die?
Alison: Aren't you, if you're really being honest with yourself?
Ben: No. I want to live.
