Affair Quote by Eliza Haywood

“Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being…

— Baroness Emma Orczy

“Hers was the bliss of one who knew that at last she was off upon the adventure at the end of which lay her…

— Paul Gallico

“He took it for granted that she was content; and she resented his settled calm, his serene dullness, the very happiness she herself brought…

— Gustave Flaubert

“She’s not happy in her marriage. Not unhappy exactly, but not happy. He doesn’t want kids, so that’s nothing to look forward to. Her…

— Phoef Sutton

“There were three of these women, separated by short intervals of pain, remorse, and despair. When he and the last one had their final…

— Andre Dubus

“He had swept her off her feet then, and was all charm and charisma but then the magic slowly diminished and finally died due…

— Neena H. Brar

“The explanation for her absence had been staring him in the face all the while, but he hadn’t wanted to acknowledge it: The affair…

— Sherry Thomas

“She'd like to say more, and explain that her years of marriage had so degraded her expectation of happiness that to sit cradling a…

— Sarah Perry

“He desired her vaguely but without conviction. They walked together. He suddenly realized that she had always been very decent to him. She had…

— Albert Camus

“She had married him because she felt sage, because she'd had enough pain to last her a lifetime, and because although he had many…

— Jane Green

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had…

— Louis Bromfield