The Affair
Sundays 9:00 PM on ShowtimeThe Affair Season 3 Quotes
Audrey: Did I tell you I'm taking his class?
Juliette: No.
Audrey: Well I am, and he's a complete dick, an utter asshole, and all I can do is think about fucking him.
Helen: What happened to you?
Noah: Helen, I really need to sleep. You can stay, but just...please stop talking.
Audrey: I still don't know what to do about Noah Solloway. I'm just gonna fuck him and get it over with, and then I'll stop thinking about him.
Juliette: But if you sleep with him, you'll never actually know what he thinks of your work.
Audrey: Fuck.
Noah: Are you asking me if the kids downstairs are having better sex than you or I?
Juliette [with a smirk]: Do you?
Noah: No. But they may be having more of it.
Audrey: That's why the university needs to establish and enforce a mandate of verbal consent.
Juliette: I understand how such a thing would protect the university, but I don't see how sex itself would survive.
Audrey: Why not?
Juliette: Because I'm afraid the articulate is the enemy of the erotic. Isn't the whole point that you don't know what your love will do next, that you give yourself over to a sensory experience that you haven't planned and can't control? The reason I like sex is because I can finally, for a moment, turn off my neurotic mind, and just be consumed. If I give my lover permission, yes, no, touch me, not there, don't I undermine the potency of his desire?
Honestly, you'd have to bring your own waterboard to fuck them up more than my father.
Whitney
Alison: Look, I don't know if I should be talking about this. But did Cole say anything about me while I was gone?
Oscar: He said you lost your mind.
Six fucking months. No explanation. No warning. You couldn't pick up a phone or write her a letter? Did you ever stop to think about how that would feel to her?
Cole
I'm her mother. I made a mistake, but I'm still her mother.
Alison
Mom, what happened to Scotty is in no way your fault.
Whitney
Noah: I never understood why you were coming here in the first place. I never asked you to come. I only wanted you to come here for the kids, and the kids aren't coming. That's what I want, Helen. I want you to leave me alone. Is that too much to ask? I mean, haven't I fuckin' done enough?
Helen: I am very aware of what you have done for me. I thought you did it for...for the kids, I guess? And for...I don't know why I think you did it.
Helen: What about me? What am I supposed to do while you're in here?
Noah: Just wait.
