Anne packs things to go into hiding. She makes the statement, "Memories mean more to me than dresses." Why did she say this?

I think she means she prefers to leave behind what is unnecessary though she might want them, and instead, takes with her what she needs. Her memories and necessities.

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the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.