Quotes on love, affairs, anger and men, by Kita Tabachka.

“Most affairs are not a search for someone better. They are a search for a self.”

“Most affairs happen on the near side of a door nobody knocked on.”

“The affair is the injury. The months after decide whether it heals.”

“Truth offered, not extracted. Watched, not promised.”

“The test for an emotional affair: would the messages survive your partner reading them?”

“He goes quiet because every sentence he thinks of feels dangerous.”

“Anger is rarely the first feeling. It is the fastest one.”

“The help was at the foot of the ladder the whole time.”

“She did not go quiet overnight. She went quiet while you were relieved things were calm.”

“She fell out of love with an absence. Start with the man, not the marriage.”

“Couples who argue about everything are having one argument in a hundred outfits.”

“Repeating what she said, accurately, without adding your side, is the one move with no counter.”

“Resentment is a request you never made out loud.”

“The chase feels like love because it feels familiar.”

“The family is the problem you see. Your partner’s silence is the one which hurts.”

“When you move abroad, your partner becomes your whole country.”