Otto Frank: For the past two years we have lived in fear. Now we can live in hope.
Otto Frank: We don't need the Nazis to destroy us. We're destroying ourselves.
[Reading the note Anne included with her crossword book]

Margot: You have never lost your temper / You never will, I fear / You are so good / But if you should / Put all your cross words here.
Anne Frank: Margot, Margot, Margot. That's all I ever hear: how good Margot is.
Mrs. Petronella Van Daan: [to Mr. Dussel] No, it's not like Saint Nicholas Day! What kind of Jew are you that you don't know Hanukkah?
Anne Frank: I know it's terrible trying to have any faith when people are doing such horrible... But you know what I sometimes think? I think the world may be going through a phase, the way I was with mother. It'll pass. Maybe not hundreds of years, but someday. - I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.
Anne Frank: I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
Otto Frank: Always remember this Anna, there are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind.
Anne Frank: You know we're going to forget how to dance.
Anne Frank: Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.
Margot: Sometimes I wish the end would come, whatever it is.

Mrs. Edith Frank: Margot!

Margot: Then at least we'd know where we were.

Mrs. Edith Frank: You should be ashamed of yourself, talking that way! Think how lucky we are, think of the thousands dying in the war every day, think of the people in concentration camps.

Anne Frank: What's the good of that? What's the good of thinking of misery when you're already miserable? That's stupid. We're young, Margot and Peter and I. You grown-ups have had your chance. Look at us. If we begin thinking of all the horror in the world, we're lost. We're trying to hold on to some kind of ideals, when everything - ideals, hope - everything is being destroyed. It isn't our fault the world is in such a mess. We weren't around when all this started.

Mrs. Edith Frank: [sternly interrupting] Now you listen to me...

Anne Frank: [resumes speaking] So don't try to take it out on us!
Mr. Albert Dussell: Stop it! Let's be happy.
Anne Frank: We try and hold on to some kind of ideals, when everything - ideals, hope, everything is being destroyed.
Anne Frank: Already I know what I want to do, don't you. I want to be a journalist or something. I love to write.
Anne Frank: I want to go on living even after I'm dead.
Anne Frank: You know what I do when I think I can't stand another minute cooped up? I think myself outside.
Anne Frank: You know the most wonderful part of thinking yourself outside. You can have it any way you like. You can have rows of roses and violets all blooming in the same season, isn't that wonderful!
Anne Frank: We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.
Mr. Albert Dussell: You're spoiling the whole invasion!
Anne Frank: I've never heard grownups quarrel before

Mr. Hans Van Daan: It's not a quarrel, it's a discussion. And I've never heard children so rude before.
Mrs. Edith Frank: Let me see your tongue.

Anne Frank: [opens her mouth]

Peter Van Daan: [opens his door] Quack.
[last lines]

Anne Frank: [voiceover] In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Otto Frank: [spoken] She puts me to shame.
[first lines]

Kraler: Mr. Frank. - Mr Frank?

Otto Frank: Kraler. - Mr. Kraler. Miep. My good friends.
German soldier 1: [chuckling, relieved] Es ist eine Katze!

[It's a cat!]

German soldier 2: [laughs] Ja.

[Yes]

German soldier 1: [calls the cat in German] Miez, Miez, Miez! Miez, Mieez!

[Kitty...!]
Anne Frank: [Peter has removed the Star of David badge from his coat] You took off your star.

Peter Van Daan: That's right.

Anne Frank: You can't do that. They arrest you if you go out without your star.

Peter Van Daan: Who's going out?

Anne Frank: What are you going to do with it?

Peter Van Daan: Burn it.

Anne Frank: I don't think I could burn mine. I don't know why.

Peter Van Daan: You couldn't? Something they made you wear so they could kick you around?

Anne Frank: I know, but after all, it is the Star of David, isn't it?
Otto Frank: [to Anne] Being here has certain advantages for you. Now for instance, you remember that battle you had with your mother the other day on the subject of overshoes? You said you would rather die than wear overshoes, remember? And what happened? In the end you had to wear them. Now, you see, for as long as we are here, you won't have to wear overshoes, isn't that great? And the piano. You won't have to practice on the piano. I tell you, this is going to be a fine life for you.
Anne Frank: But Peter, if you'd only look at it, as part of a great pattern, that we're just a little minute in life.

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Rodolfo 2022-03-25 09:01:23

the world still hasn't gone through this phase, the way i was with father, someday may be hundreds of years
Emmanuel 2022-03-26 09:01:14

I finally know why I have an inexplicable affection for the Netherlands since I was a child. I was deeply influenced by the original book when I was in middle school. . .