People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

It must be awful to feel you're not needed.

The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.