The Ten Year Affair Quotes

“They’d had sex for the last time on that morning in Manhattan. They had the room and the lighting was flattering. A large mirror faced the bed. It seemed”
― Erin Somers, The Ten Year Affair

“That had been Eliot at his most charming. He’d given it to her as she was waking up. It was extravagant—they had no money—which made it even better. Early on”
― Erin Somers, The Ten Year Affair

“How aware was he of what was going on? He was not observant in general”
― Erin Somers, The Ten Year Affair

“Opal’s intelligence was a spring that ran cool and brisk. Cora didn’t fully know its depths. If a child could figure out how to spatchcock a chicken”
― Erin Somers, The Ten Year Affair

“Some nebulous sense of closure? Closure never came. There was only forgetting. There was only the slow passage of time, and rooting for the fallibility of your own brain. Rooting for the day you’d wake up and the particulars would be gone, deleted to make way for something else.”
― Erin Somers, The Ten Year Affair