According to the New York Times, one passage about Frank's mother reads, "I am unable to talk with her. I cannot look lovingly into those cold eyes. I cannot, never! -- If she had only one aspect of an understanding mother, either tenderness, or kindness, or patience or something else, I would keep trying to approach her."
The Secret Pages of Anne Frank
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A researcher holding the five newly discovered pages of Anne Frank's diary
-- in which Anne describes her parents' loveless marriage and her stormy
relationship with her mother -- will reportedly give them to Dutch scholars
if he can't find a buyer in a year. Cor Suijk (of the New York-based Anne
Frank Center USA) has set a price of $500,000 for the handwritten pages in
an effort to raise money for the center, it was said on Dutch TV's AT5. Suijk startled scholars last month by demanding money in exchange for the
missing pages of the diary. Suijk claims that Otto Frank, father of the
young diarist, gave him the pages of sometimes stormy prose shortly before his death in 1980.