19 quotes
Excitement and Anticipation of a New Plan
Pauline Parker
This notion is not a new one but this time it is a definite plan which we intend to carry out. We have worked it out carefully and are both thrilled by the idea. Naturally we feel a trifle nervous, but the pleasure of anticipation is great.
[narrating]
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A Tragic Tale of Three Acts
Pauline Parker
It's a three act story with a tragic end.
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Angels and Innocence: A Complex Perspective
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Not all angels are innocent.
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Struggles 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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Urgent Call for Help from Mummy
Juliet Hulme
Mummy!
Pauline Parker
Mummy!
Juliet Hulme
Mummmmy!
Pauline Parker
It's Mummy! She's terribly hurt!
Juliet Hulme
Please! Help us!
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Contemplating Death and Its Impact
Pauline Parker
The next time I write in this diary, Mother will be dead. How odd... yet how pleasing.
[narration]
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Perception of Genius and Others' Sadness
Pauline Parker
We have decided how sad it is for others that they cannot appreciate our genius.
[voiceover, from her diary]
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Romanticizing Illness and Imperfection
Juliet Hulme
All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic.
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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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Defiance in a Moment of Frustration
Juliet Hulme
Stick it up your bottom!
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Invisible Secrets, Unthinkable Crimes
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From a secret world no one could see...came a crime no one could believe.
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Selfish Resolutions for a Joyful Tomorrow
Pauline Parker
My new year's resolution is a far more selfish one than last year. It is to make my motto, eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow, you may be dead.
[from her diary]
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Pursuing Happiness Against All Obstacles
Juliet Hulme
Only the best people fight against all obstacles in pursuit of happiness.
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A Vision of an Ideal Paradise
Juliet Hulme
Daddy says the ] is a load of bunkum.
[[The Bible|Bible]
Pauline Parker
But we're all going to ].
[[Heaven]
Juliet Hulme
I'm not. I'm going to the Fourth World. It's sort of like Heaven, only better, because there aren't any Christians. It's an absolute paradise of music, art and pure enjoyment.
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Understanding and Acceptance in Uncertain Times
Juliet Hulme
I think she knows what's going to happen. She doesn't appear to bear us any grudge.
[about the murder of Honora Parker]
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Understanding Our Extraordinary Connection Through Madness
Pauline Parker
We realized why Deborah and I have such extraordinary telepathy and why people treat us and look at us the way they do. It is because we are MAD. We are both stark raving MAD!
[narrating]
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A Shocking True Crime Story Unfolds
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The true story of a crime that shocked a nation.
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Pauline's Disturbing Wish for Her Parents
Pauline Parker
She is most unreasonable. Why could not mother die? Dozens of people are dying all the time, thousands, so why not mother? And father too.
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The Thrill of Affairs Over Marriage
Juliet Hulme
Affairs are much more exciting than marriages. As Mummy can testify.
[pause]
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