Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank (German: [ˈanə(liːs maˈʁiː) ˈfʁaŋk] , Dutch: [ˌɑnəˈlis maːˈri ˈfrɑŋk, ˈɑnə ˈfrɑŋk] ; 12 June 1929 – c. February or March 1945) was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary documenting her life in hiding amid Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. A...
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.
—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle
—Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced
—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle