Vera Phillips Quotes in The Edge of Love (2008)

William Killick: No harm will ever come to you. Not from me, not from anyone else. And while I'm here, no word of mine will ever hurt you.

Vera Phillips: Sounds like a vow.

Vera Phillips: You don't even see me, do you? Dylan! All you've got is stories in your head. Words. And I have to feel real. William... makes me real.

Caitlin MacNamara: Now you'll get fat. And Dylan won't love you anymore.

Vera Phillips: You're a bitch. It's the past Dylan loves. And you. He doesn't love me at all.

Caitlin MacNamara: When's William get back?

Vera Phillips: I keep writing. No word.

Caitlin MacNamara: Think he's dead?

Vera Phillips: We're still getting his pay. The army wouldn't pay a dead man.

Caitlin MacNamara: You'll have to stop singing.

Vera Phillips: I'll sing if I want.

Caitlin MacNamara: They won't let you. Not pregnant they won't.

Vera Phillips: I can't do this. I can't. A mother, me, look at me!

Caitlin MacNamara: Get rid of it then.

Vera Phillips: It's William's.

Caitlin MacNamara: Ah, you love him.

Vera Phillips: I hate him. Oh, God, I hate him so much. Look what he's done to me.

[Caitlin laughs hysterically]

Vera Phillips: Don't laugh. Don't damn well laugh! I can't do this alone.

Caitlin MacNamara: I'm here, aren't I?

Vera Phillips: Let's go home, Caitlin.

Caitlin MacNamara: I don't have a home.

Vera Phillips: Wales, Caitlin!

Caitlin MacNamara: Are you insane, woman?

Caitlin MacNamara: My first was Augustus John. He seduced me when I was 15 the old goat. It doesn't mean anything, fucking. It isn't love. I get an itch, it's gotta be scratched. I do it myself when I'm too lazy. Why bother when you can get someone else to do it for you?

Vera Phillips: Nothing to do with love, fucking?

Caitlin MacNamara: Uh-uh. Nothing. Who was your first?

Vera Phillips: [Innocently] What?

Caitlin MacNamara: You don't need to tell me, I know it was Dylan.

Vera Phillips: We were kids. Tent, fire, and a beach blanket.

Caitlin MacNamara: Nice and comfy then.

Vera Phillips: Children, still innocent.

Caitlin MacNamara: We are still innocent, me and Dylan.

Vera Phillips: I only want it as a memory. I don't want it back.

Caitlin MacNamara: Does William know? Don't ever tell him. I can forgive the past, he won't. The past I can forgive.

Vera Phillips: You're warning me.

Vera Phillips: I don't melt at the sight of a uniform, that's all. Sod it. I don't like nosy parkers.

Caitlin MacNamara: It was a civil question. I could have said, "Are you after my husband?" But I didn't.

Vera Phillips: Heartache, that's what I see in a uniform. I'm not gonna love someone just to have them die off on me.