Believe me, if you've been shut up for a year and a half, it can get to be too much for you sometimes. But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem. I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.
Source documented
This Anne Frank passage about feelings and the longing for freedom comes from her diary entry dated 24 December 1943. The official Anne Frank House exhibition text reproduces this excerpt on page 26.