“ We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees. Anna Freud
“ I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. Anna Freud
“ Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? Anna Freud
“ We live trapped, between the churned-up and examined past and a future that waits for our work. Anna Freud
“ Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours. Anna Freud
“ Instead of turning away from them (war conditions) in instinctive horror, as people seem to expect, the child may turn towards them with primitive excitement. The real danger is not that the child, ca… Anna Freud
