Quotes

Dialogue

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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Juliet Hulme: Daddy says the Bible is a load of bunkum. 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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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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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 exe