Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

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.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!

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.