“She knew, even though she was too young to know the reason, that indiscriminate desire and unselective indulgence were possible only to those who regarded sex and themselves as evil.”— Ayn Rand, amazon.com
“When a man cheats, it is said it is because he is a dog. When a woman cheats, it is said it is because her man is a dog.”— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, amazon.com
“So when a secret affair is revealed, it’s devastating, destructive, and something we all would like to avoid -- but it’s also a moment that can make us finally, fully honest about what’s been missing, and what’s worth saving.”— Anna Sale, wnyc.org
“My husband and I had been together for so long and I came to realize that he in a lot of ways had stopped paying attention. I think to a certain extent we were both sort of invisible to each other.”— Sheri, wnyc.org
“It became more painful to not do it and to just test the waters and say, maybe this is the only guy that I’ll ever be in love with and for me to deny myself that -- that would be terrible.”— Ali, wnyc.org
“Having an affair seems like such a big decision. Of course, it’s really a series of small choices.”— Anna Sale, wnyc.org
“George Mackey: How could you, a mathematician, a man devoted to reason and logical proof, how could you believe that extraterrestrials are sending you messages? Steve Nash: Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriou…”— George Mackey, Steve Nash, amazon.com
“When I was seventeen, I used to write on average two poems a day, each of them taking me about twenty minutes. Their quality was doubtful, but I didn’t even try to write better then, thinking that I was performing little miracles and that over miracles I didn’t need to think. Now I know that, indeed…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com