Memorable Quotes from Sarah Peirse
2 quotesStruggles with Depression and Familial Conflict
Pauline Parker
I felt thoroughly depressed and even quite seriously considered committing suicide. Life seemed so much not worth the living and death such an easy way out.
Honorah Parker Rieper
Love, you can still write to each other.
Pauline Parker
Anger against Mother boiled up inside me, as it is she who is one of the main obstacles in my path. Suddenly a means of ridding myself of this obstacle occurred to me. If she were to die...
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Imagination and Spirit in Young Women
Dr. Henry Hulme
Mrs. Rieper, may I come in?
Honorah Parker Rieper
Yes, of course.
Dr. Henry Hulme
Thank you.
Dr. Henry Hulme
Your daughter's an imaginative and spirited girl.
Honorah Parker Rieper
Look, if she's spending too much time at your house, you only need to say. All those nights that she spends over, she assured us that you don't mind.
Dr. Henry Hulme
It, it's rather more complicated than that. Since Mrs. Hulme and I have returned home, Juliet has been behaving in a rather disturbed manner... surliness, general irritability - most uncharacteristic.
Herbert Rieper
Sure I can't tempt you to a nice sherry, Dr. Hulme?
Dr. Henry Hulme
No, thank you. The thing is...
Honorah Parker Rieper
Yvonne hasn't been herself, either. Locking herself away in her room, endlessly writing.
Dr. Henry Hulme
My wife and I feel the friendship is... unhealthy.
Herbert Rieper
No arguments there, Dr. Hulme! All that time inside working on those novels of theirs. They don't get fresh air or exercise!
Honorah Parker Rieper
I'm not sure what you mean, Dr. Hulme.
Dr. Henry Hulme
Your daughter appears to have formed a rather unwholesome attachment to Juliet.
Honorah Parker Rieper
What's she done?
Dr. Henry Hulme
She hasn't done anything. It's the intensity of the friendship that concerns me. I think we should avert trouble before it starts.
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