Cole: Do I know 'im?
Alison: No.
Cole: Is he from here?
Alison: No.
Cole: Good. Then it's your problem. You deal with it.

Noah: Maybe it just made me feel better to be seen as someone. Something successful. You just see me as potential unfulfilled. You're waiting for the guy you married to happen.
Helen: Only because you are.
Noah: Helen, I love you so much.

Noah: She was in a very dark place and she came after me pretty hard.
Helen: Oh my God. This is disgusting.
Noah: I was feeling weak, I guess. I finally had a book published, it took ten years and it was just nothing. Nobody read it.

Noah: I don't know why I did it.
Helen: What... what am I supposed to do with that?

Noah: Helen.
Helen: Uh oh.
Noah: I'm so sorry. It's so stupid.
Helen: Shit.
Noah: And it was nothing. I wanted just to pretend it never happened because it meant nothing, but I, I, I can't
keep it from you. I...I had a fling. This summer.
Helen: A fling? So what, like once?
Noah: A few times.
Helen: With who?
Noah: It doesn't matter.
Helen: The waitress? Alison? I knew it. You know, I fucking knew it. How long?

Maybe your age is catching up to your legendary hard on.

Helen

Oscar: Looks like you got away with it. You know what I just realized? I could tell your wife.
Noah: I have no idea what you're talking about.
Oscar: Yeah you do. I'll tell you what. How about ten grand to make sure Helen never finds out.
Noah: Are you kidding me?
Oscar: It's a little something I just thought of.
Noah: I don't have that kind of money.
Oscar: Yeah? Well, I think you can get it. So I'll give you a week and then I'll tell her. Have a safe trip. I have your cell.

See? That's what happens when you don't apologize for 50 years.

Helen

Why do you keep denying my reality?

Whitey

Cole: What do you want me to do? We're a hundred k in the hole right now. How am I going to make that money if I don't sell the rest of that shit?
Alison: Sell the ranch.
Cole: What?
Alison: Sell it. Let's be honest, Cole. We're miserable here.

All this time I thought you were in mourning. You wanted to fuck someone, Bailey, you could have fucked me. It didn't have to be some married yuppie summer slut.

Oscar

Do you think me being her with you is an accident? This is a choice.

Noah

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.