Kirsten Dewar

"I dread the day, coming round the corner I'll walk into him. I'm just not prepared to handle that. Because although he's gone from my life, he is no way absent. I wish I could move on. I've tried. But he's got his hook in me, and I can't seem to work it loose ... "

Sally Vickers

"The desire to be loved is as basic a need as that for physical sustenance. But to take delight in being loved requires nerve. For where life is most ardently awakened, it can be most excruciatingly extinguished and the fear of that possibility can tragically become the wet blanket which smothers the most sacred of... flames ... "

Sally Vickers (The Other Side of You)

Sally Vickers

"It is hard to account for the common human resistance to happiness, unless it is rather that we would be crippled by what we lack, than face the consequences of placing our secret selves into another's hands ... "

Sally Vickers (The Other Side of You)