When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

by Alice Hoffman

When you write it down, they cannot pretend it never happened.

In the Nazi regime, age meant nothing, humanity meant nothing, love meant nothing.

Just don’t fly away, Pim often teased Anne when she was daydreaming, and she would grin because that was exactly what she planned to do someday.

She wanted him to be somewhere safe where the bombs didn’t shake the stars in the sky.

Jews were considered to be something rather than someone.

He had always been the sort of man who believed that books were as important as food when it came to nourishing a person.

Love is everything, love is everywhere, it’s the one thing they can never take away from you.