"I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight."

"I don't want to be like my mother, or like Mrs. van Daan—I want to be something entirely different."

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out."

"I must be myself. I cannot be otherwise."

"I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free."