1. Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
( Saturday, June 20 1942 )
** I wish I could tell her that this diary she started writing surely interested not only me, but thousands around the globe.

2. Paper does have more patience...

3. "....I followed in February, when I was plonked down on the table as a birthday present for Margot..."

4. " You couldn't do this and you couldn't do that, but life went on."
(** In this line, Anne refers to the restrictions Jews had to obey during that period, where they weren't allowed to got to cinemas, were forbidden to use swimming pools, hockey fields, and were even forbidden to visit Christians. )

5. "....most of the time it's so busy in Oasis that we manage to find a few generous young men of our acquaintances or an admirer to offer us more ice-cream than we could eat in a week..."

6. " Of course, there are those [boys] who blow you kisses or try to take hold of your arm, but they're definitely knocking on the wrong door."

7. "All's fair in love and war." ~ By Hello Silberberg

8. "Mother is always asking me who I'm going to marry when I grow up, but I bet she'll never guess it's Peter, because I talked her out of that idea myself, without batting an eyelash. I love Peter as I've never loved anyone, and I tell myself he's only going around with all those other girls to hide his feelings for me."

9. "Just enjoy your carefree life when you can." ~ Otto Frank

10. " I'm not doing much schoolwork. I've given myself a holiday until September ( she wrote that in August ).