The Affair
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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.
Ben, please, just be honest with me. I can take it. Just tell me who you are. Tell me the truth.
Alison
Why do you kill an ant? Why do you kill a mouse? Because you don't want it running around your house, Alison, because you don't want it bothering you.
Ben
Alison: Don't mess with my heart, OK. I can't handle any more pain.
Ben: I know. I won't.
Alison: Promise?
Ben: I Promise.
Alison: What happens to people like us?
Ben: What do you mean?
Alison: The ones who can't be forgiven.
Ben: The shrinks would say we need to forgive ourselves.
Alison: I can't.
Alison: So that's what you walk around with, every day?
Ben: When I got back home, I couldn't stand Heidi anymore. It wasn't her fault. It just, I wish she looked at me, the way she needed me. One night we got in bed and I tied her in bed on her stomach so I wouldn't have to look at her face, not even when Bodie started to cry. I got clean after that, and I haven't touched a drink since. I haven't touched her, either.
What's happening between us, it doesn't happen to me very often. Does it happen to you? Then why are you trying to fuck it up?
Ben
Alison: Ben, are you married?
Ben: Why would I be here if I was married?
Noah: Quit macking on her.
Anton: Macking?
Noah: Yeah.
Anton: Nineteen ninety-one called on the landline and wants you to fax their slang back.
Joanie: Where is mommy?
Cole: I don't know, sweetheart.
Cole: How, exactly, do you know this kid?
Noah: It's complicated.
Cole: Yeah, I bet. Let me guess. You're fucking his mother.
I'll always love her, but it was all over a long time ago.
Noah
