Vic: I thought you were going to relax today.
Helen: Um, I am relaxed. Stacey!
Stacey: Just a minute!

I don't know what kind of sick game you're playing here, but those are my kids, too.

Noah

You know what, I am really trying but you are not the center of the universe, Noah.

Helen

You're doing everything in your power to box me out of their lives.

Noah

Noah: I don't think I'm better than him.
Whitney: You're not!
Noah: I think you are. [pause] I'm listening to you defend a man I just watched hit you. I can tell you really believe what you're saying, and oh God, that kills me Whitney. Because I can see I failed you in the most important job I had, which was to protect you from men like...men like me.

Noah: 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.
Juliette: I prayed for him to die, Noah.
Noah: I'm sure you did, but that's not why he's dead.

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

Noah: Are you going to show me the real Paris?
Juliette: I don't know if you'd be welcome there.
Noah: Fuck the real Paris. Let's go get some cheese.

Whitney: I don't want to be an assistant. I love you! You said you loved me!
Fukrat: I said that, yes, when we were fucking! I like to fuck you!

It happens sometimes. It's what we call terminal lucidity. The patient surfaces right before the very end. Like a sort of final gift.

Doctor

Helen: I just...I don't know what to do. I don't know how to live with this.
Vic: You just do.

Helen: You didn't do anything wrong, and neither did your dad.
Margaret: What?
Helen: It was me. I hit Scotty Lockhart. I was driving, it was not him. I don't know what I was thinking.
Elder son: You were driving?
Helen: I'm sorry I lied, but I can't keep lying.
Margaret: What is this nonsense?
Helen: I'm sorry. I need you all to know. And I need the Lockharts to know. I mean, my God, his poor mother. I, I, I have to tell her.

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.