Accept the fact that you are the pivot along which the loads of your efforts will turn. Acknowledge yourself as the chairperson at the center of affairs management for your dreams. Take the chair and be at the forefront.

— Israelmore Ayivor

And I ask myself what it is about me that makes this wonderful, beautiful woman return. Is it because I'm pathetic, helpless in my current state, completely dependent on her? Or is it my sense of humor, my willingness to tease her, to joke my way into painful, secret places? Do I help her understand herself? Do I make her happy? Do I do something for her that her husband and son can't do? Has she fallen in love with me? As the days pass and I continue to heal, my body knitting itself back together, I begin to allow myself to think that she has.

— Mohsin Hamid

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.

— Pico Iyer

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

— Kerry Cohen

Being faithful and monogamous is not natural for human beings. It takes work. Deep down we all know that. We have all been tempted to stray at some point or another. Even when it was only a fleeting thought and we didn't act on it. Every time we acknowledge that someone of the opposite sex is "attractive" or "sexy" we are doing nothing other than pointing out that they would be a suitable mate. Not acting on that natural impulse to want to mate with a viable mating partner requires a conscious decision. It's a constant struggle between what your body wants, and what the civilized part of your brain says you should do, in order to avoid the negative consequences of cheating on your spouse and ruining your long-term relationship. That's why affairs, and extra-marital sex, are often referred to as "a moment of weakness.

— Oliver Markus

Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Beware what you consume, lest you appetite grow by what it feeds on.

— Candace Bushnell

But that was the problem with New York: No matter how successful you thought you were, there was always someone who was richer, more successful, more famous. The idea of it was sometimes enough to make you want to give up.

— Candace Bushnell

Cheat, defeat, repeat.

— Elda M. Lopez

Corporate media rarely reports the fact that police internal affairs uphold hardly any complaints from the masses.

— Steven Magee