Anne Frank

“Paper has more patience than people.”

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God

Our entire class is quaking in its boots.

. I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there’s not much you can do about inherited traits.

Preoccupied by the thought of going into hiding, I stuck the craziest things in the bag, but I’m not sorry. Memories mean more to me than dresses.

I think it’s odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters.

I know I have my faults and shortcomings, but they blow them all out of proportion!

I’ve learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!

Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I’ll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it’ll make me stronger in the end.

As youngest among us, but small no more,

Your life can be trying, for we have the chore