CG Harkness’s Reviews > The Diary of a Young Girl > Status Update

“I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”


I’ve quoted her years ago, when I was also writing my own journal. I write everyday and I think more than a medium, it is a cathartic experience to be able to express oneself through words. Oh, Anne. You’ve always been an inspiration to people like me!

I believe that it's spring within me, I feel that spring is awakening, I feel it in my whole body and soul. It is an effort to behave normally, I feel utterly confused, don't know what to read, what to write, what to do, I only know that I am longing ...!

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the 'One and Only' to anyone.

My nerves often get the better of me: it is especially on Sundays that I feel rotten. The atmosphere is so oppressive, and sleepy and as heavy as lead. You don't hear a single bird singing outside, and a deadly close silence hangs everywhere, catching hold of me as if it will drag me down deep into an underworld.

“You had better make haste, if you want to get a husband or fall in love - or everything is sure to be a disappointment to you. You are already proficient in the theory, it's only the practice that you still lack!"

“at last something good again and — hope. Hope for it to end, hope for peace.”

Everyone is trying to get hold of an old set and to hand that in instead of their 'source of courage'. It is really true that as the news from outside gets worse, so the radio with its miraculous voice helps us to keep up our morale and to say again, 'Chins up, stick it out, better times will come!'

Everyone is trying to get hold of an old set and to hand that in instead of their 'source of courage'. It is really true that as the news from outside gets worse, so the radio with its miraculous voice helps us to keep up our morale and to say again, 'Chins up, stick it out, better times will come!'