Jennifer Lynch > Quotes

“I told him I didn’t want to hurt him, or anyone else. I just feel that sometimes I am better company only to myself, because of what is happening in my life, than I am or would be to anyone else.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“Sometimes I think life would be so much easier if we didn’t have to think about being boys or girls or men or women or old or young, fat or thin… if we could all just be certain we were the same. We might be bored, but the danger of life and of living would be gone.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“We’re like everyone else, I guess. We promise that something is forever, when it is really only as long as it takes for us to tire of it.
When she walked away, and out of the door, it was like she was leaving forever.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“If only I could understand
The reason for my crying
If only I could stop this fear
Of dreaming that I'm dying.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I will not let anyone hurt me, like in the dream. I'll hurt myself first. I know the places that are the most delicate. I'll do the hurting from now on, as long as all of this stops!!!!”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“He swore his love to me again and again until he finally realized that I cannot love anything right now. Falling in love is like holding a white flag out to your enemies and saying, “we give up, we’re in love.” Love is surrender.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“Accept that you are bad and dirty and cheap and should be thrown to the wolves as scrap meat, and must never bear children, for who knows the faces they would be locked behind from birth until death.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“P.S. I hope BOB doesn’t come tonight.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I have simply forgotten how to be loved. Laura”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I have found light and pleasure inside the horror.”
― Jennifer Lynch

“I wonder if life is still something I can make up.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“She says I think too many sad thoughts, and that if I keep it up, who knows what will happen. Donna doesn't know everything I know. I can't help but think sad thoughts sometimes. Sometimes they are the closest things on my mind.”
― Jennifer Lynch

“I am trapped inside a part of me I hate. A hard, masculine part of myself that has surfaced to fight, after small memories and scars come out of me with a suddenness that is sobering as well as horrifying-and I fight to save the Laura I wish I could be again. The one everyone thinks is still around. Me in a sundress, hair in the wind, and a smile engraved into my cheeks by the sharp fear that a man may visit me at any moment this evening and try to kill me.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I like the idea of keeping my thoughts all in one place, like a brain you can look into.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“Sometimes, life is about what happens before death.”
― jennifer lynch

“I trust no one, and only rarely myself. I struggle most mornings, afternoons, and evenings with what is right an what is wrong. I do not understand if I am being punished for something I have done wrong, something I don't remember, or if this happens to everyone, and I am just too stupid to understand it.”
― Jennifer Lynch

“Sometimes I think he’s just chosen to keep quiet because it is so much more interesting sometimes to just listen to people instead of talking to them.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“Appartengo agli uomini libidinosi che in realtà sono bambini piangenti”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I wanted to be a tree so that I could listen for trouble in the woods.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I think of death these days as a companion I long to meet.”
― Jennifer Lynch

“So che l'ho ferito... Spero che un giorno capisca il perchè. Non schiaccerei mai nessuno nel modo in cui sono stata schiacciata io. Se fossi stata io quella derisa, non so se sarei mai stata di nuovo così onesta - in grado di avvicinarmi a qualcuno anche con il più piccolo complimento, perchè il ricordo della risata risuonerebbe di nuovo nelle mie orecchie”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I'm so afraid of death.
I'm so afraid that no one will believe me until after I have taken the seat that I fear has been saved for me in the darkness. Please don't hate me.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“Sometimes my bedroom is the best place in the world, and other times it is like a place that closes in and suffocates me. I”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I have such an anger and an urge to charge at the sky, to call the wind a liar for never showing itself. An urge to scream at the two who allowed my birth. Cries for help to anyone who will hear them. To scream into the street that there is a lack of miracles in Mother Nature herself. Her divinity is a lie. In”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I wonder if pain, the kind that doesn't just happen when your cat is killed, or when your aunt dies, but the kind that you have to live with... can it ever be a friend?”
― Jennifer Lynch

“I'm so tired of waiting to grow up. Someday it will happen and I'll be the only person who can make me feel good or bad about anything I do.”
― Jennifer Lynch

“When there is a marriage. A union that you were born of, not responsible for. You, child, should be a gift to those who are ready, not a burden like so many others before you. Come back, child, when I am no longer a child myself. Laura”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I do not think that hour there told me anything I could not have imagined myself, but being there, in that silence, gave me hope that at least there are no wars after death. I”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“I don’t want to feed my dreams.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

“If I am a better person, and if I try harder every day, perhaps all of this will work out.”
― Jennifer Lynch