I think I might go burn my diary after reading this!

Well, at least you have interesting life :) Then, you could start a false diary...

Well, at least be glad it's interesting enough to read! Perhaps, one day you can get it published?

Diaries are always the most interesting books, and especially intriguing as they provide insight into the writer and are off limits which makes it all the more mysterious.

Oh, it isn't just bookmarked. She probably highlighted the good parts. Want to have some privacy? Keep a journal online. Otherwise, your parents WILL snoop. It's their house.

Take it and write an elaborate entry about how you plan to murder her for insurance money. And put her invasion of privacy as your other motive.

Dear diary, today a read an FML about a mother who read her daughter's diary. The no-life bitch even had it bookmarked. If my mother ever does that, I'm going to kill her with her best kitchen knife.

I don't understand parents that would invade someone's privacy like that. All it will do is destroy any trust their child has in them and distant their relationship farther. OP, I hope this doesn't discourage you to continue to write. I had a journal I kept growing up and it's amazing to go back and read. Just need to hide it better under lock and key.

Or you could write a fake diary about how you love studying and going to church, and hide the real one better.

Or you could make up an entire story that's very epic and stuff, and at the end you confront your mother and tell her it's all lies and made up. You know like in that movie The Prestige!