02c. 1937 ADI'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!Anne Frank / quote ↗
03c. 1937 ADPeter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.Anne Frank / quote ↗
05c. 1937 ADIt's just that when you're standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more toeach other than in bright sunshine. It's also easier to whisper your feelings than toshout them from the rooftops.Anne Frank / quote ↗
07c. 1937 ADBut feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.Anne Frank / quote ↗
09c. 1937 ADbut i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!Anne Frank / quote ↗
10c. 1937 ADYou only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true characterAnne Frank / quote ↗
13c. 1937 ADSleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.Anne Frank / quote ↗
14c. 1937 ADIn the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.Anne Frank / quote ↗
16c. 1937 ADBut I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...Anne Frank / quote ↗
19c. 1937 ADI've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.Anne Frank / quote ↗
20c. 1937 ADThere is a saying that "paper is more patient than man";it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days,while I sat chin in hand,feeling too bored and limp even to make up my mind whether to go out or stay at home. Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook,bearing the proud name of"diary",to anyone,unless I find a real friend,boy or girl,probably nobody cares.And now I come to the root of the matter,the reason for my starting a diary:it is that I have no such real friend. Let me put it more clearly,since no one will believe that a girl of thirteen feels herself quite alone in the world,nor is it so.I have darling parents and a sister of sixteen.I know about thirty people whom one might call friends--I have strings of boy friends,anxious to catch a glimpse of me and who,failing that,peep at me through mirrors in class.I have relations,aunts and uncles,who are darlings too,a good home,no--I don't seem to lack anything.But it's the same with all my friends,just fun and joking,nothing more.I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round.We don't seem to be able to get any closer,that is the root of the trouble.Perhaps I lack confidence,but anyway,there it is,a stubborn fact and I don't seem to be able to do anything about it.Anne Frank / quote ↗
22c. 1937 ADIt is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.Anne Frank / quote ↗
23c. 1937 ADI think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.Anne Frank / quote ↗
24c. 1937 AD...if I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days.Anne Frank / quote ↗
