Ocupation: Author
Life: b. June 12, 1929
Birthday: June 12
Outside, you don't hear a single bird, and a deathly, oppressive silence hangs over the house and clings to me as if it were going to drag me into the deepest regions of the underworld.... I wander from room to room, climb up and down the stairs and feel like a songbird whose wings have been ripped off and who keeps hurling itself against the bars of its dark cage.
source: Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.86, Bantam
topic: Dark, Wings, House, Songbirds, Hang Over, Underworld, Hurling