RoSe FroM The LitTLe PRInCE

since i was talking abt roses, here are some quotes fr the book titled The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. I love this book... such a meaningful story. again, read between the lines.

Pg 25 -

Flowers are weak, they are naive. They reassure themselves as best as they can. They think they are being frightening with their thorns.

Pg 71 -

Go and look at your roses again. You will understnad that yours is after all, unique in the world.

Pg 71&72 -

You are nothing like my rose. As yet, you are nothing at all. Nobody has tamed you, and you have tamed nobody.

Pg 72 -

you can only see things clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

It is the time you have wasted on your rose that makes you rose so important.

You become responsible, for ever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

Pg 76 -

The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.

Pg 77 -

What affects me so strongly about this sleeping price is his loyalty to a flower, to the image of a rose, which shines inside him like a flame of a lamp, even as he sleeps...

And I felt him to be more fragile still. A leamp needs to be shielded with care: the nearest puff of wind can blow it out.

Pg 79 -

people grow five thousand roses in one garden-and still they do not find what they are looking for.

Yet what they are looking for can be found in a single rose, or a handful of water.

Pg 81 -

you run the risk of a few tears when you allow yourself to be tamed...

Pg 85 -

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look up at the night sky. All the stars are in bloom.

Pg 88 -

You know - my flower... I am responsible for her! And she is so weak! She is so naive! She has four tiny little thorns to protect her against the world.

A fren told me: Love = Devotion + Responsibility. Interesting perspective. i'd like to think abt it that way too.