stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself. - Anne Frank

I see the eight of us in the Annex as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds. The perfectly round spot on which we’re standing is still safe, but the clouds are moving in on us, and the ring between us and the approaching danger is being pulled tighter and tighter. We’re surrounded by darkness and danger, and in our desperate search for a way out we keep bumping into each other. We look at the fighting down below and the peace and beauty up above. In the meantime, we’ve been cut off by the dark mass of clouds, so that we can go neither up nor down. It looms before us like an impenetrable wall, trying to crush us, but not yet able to. I can only cry out and implore, “Oh, ring, ring, open wide and let us out!

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.