Annelies

27 THE PAGES OF HER LIFE

I don’t want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would do, but I want the diary to be my friend, and I’m going to call this friend Kitty.

—Anne Frank, from her diary, 20 June 1942

It’s funny, but I can sometimes see myself as others see me. I take a leisurely look at the person called “Anne Frank” and browse through the pages of her life as though she were a stranger.

—Anne Frank, from her diary, 12 January 1944