"Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper."
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Anne Frank quotes (page 11 of 11)
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"It 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."
"This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success."
"There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down."
"This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood."
"One gets on better in life if one is not over modest."
"Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way."
"I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble."
"Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?"
"Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex."
"Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story."
"Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice."
"I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways."
"it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl."
"I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content."