13 Quotes Tagged: the-diary-of-a-young-girl

People who are religious should be glad, since not everyone is blessed with the ability to believe in a higher order.

Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out new houses for reconstruction? Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?

I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true characters!

What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?

I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!

No, I'm not afraid, except when it comes to things about myself, but I'm working on that.

But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take it too seriously.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

I hope I'm going to be a little like him, without having to go through what he has!

I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them.

I don't think my opinions are stupid but other people do, so it's better to keep them to myself.

No one must know that my heart and mind are constantly at war with each other. Up to know reason has always won the battle, but will my emotions get the upper hand? Sometimes I fear they will, but more often I actually hope they do!