How we cite our quotes: (Act.Scene.Line)
Quote #1
MR. FRANK: To be perfectly safe, from eight in the morning until six in the evening we must move only when necessary and then in stockinged feet. We must not speak above a whisper. We must not run any water. (1.2)
Mr. Frank lays down the rules for isolation in the Annex. No talking, moving, farting, etc. The Nazis will find you, and they will kill you.
Quote #2
MR. FRANK: This is the way we must live until it is over, if we are to survive. (1.2)
Come with me if you want to live. Actually, go with Otto Frank. He knows better than the Terminator how to survive a world war.
Quote #3
MR. FRANK: I don't want you to ever go beyond that door. (1.2)
The Annex is completely isolated. Anne has to listen to her dad and never go beyond the door that is hidden behind the bookcase in his former office.
Quote #4
ANNE'S VOICE: I only know it's funny never to be able to go outdoors… never to breathe fresh air… never to run and shout and jump. (1.2)
Anne doesn't really mean that it's funny—unless it's funny in that panicked, "I'm stuck inside these rooms and never coming out" way.
Quote #5
ANNE: I can smell the wind and the cold on your clothes. (2.1)
Anne is so sick of being trapped inside she wants to suck the smell of the outdoors right out of Miep's clothes.
Quote #6
ANNE: I feel that spring is coming. I feel it in my whole body and soul. (2.1)
How sad for Anne! She can't even experience the changing of seasons. Rather she has to feel them coming on.
Quote #7
MR. FRANK: It seems strange to say this, that anyone could be happy in a concentration camp. But Anne was happy in the camp in Holland where they first took us. After two years of being shut up in these rooms, she could be out … out in the sunshine and the fresh air that she loved. (2.5)
This just breaks our hearts. To be happy to be in a concentration camp means Anne definitely missed being outside. This sort of puts things in perspective about just how much Anne felt stifled in the Annex.