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.
Played by Melanie Lynskey 
Heavenly Creatures (1994) · 16 quotes
Heavenly Creatures (1994) · 16 quotes
The next time I write in this diary, Mother will be dead. How odd... yet how pleasing.
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6 quotes Pauline Parker
Pauline Parker
[voiceover, from her diary]
We have decided how sad it is for others that they cannot appreciate our genius.
Pauline Parker
[narrating]
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!
Pauline Parker
[from her diary]
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.
Pauline Parker
[narrating]
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.
Pauline Parker
It's a three act story with a tragic end.
Scenes with Pauline Parker
3 scenes
Juliet Hulme
[Juliet and Pauline are running screaming up the hill covered in blood, the scene intercuts with black and white scenes of them running across the deck of a ship towards Dr. and Mrs. Hulme]
Mummy!
Pauline Parker
Mummy!
Juliet Hulme
Mummmmy!
Pauline Parker
[the scene changes from the ship to the hilltop tea-house. The girls are screaming hysterically as the tea-house woman runs out to see what the noise is all about]
It's Mummy! She's terribly hurt!
Juliet Hulme
Please! Help us!
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.
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...
