Monday, February 15, 2010
One thing I love.
The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery
After years of wanting to read it, I finally received this story as a Christmas gift a few years ago and fell in love with it.
Some of my favorite passages come from the Fox:
"For me you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you have no need of me, either. For you I'm only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we'll need each other. You'll be the only boy in the world for me. I'll be the only fox in the world for you..."
"...if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Other footsteps will send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see the wheat fields over there? I don't eat bread. For me wheat is of no use whatever. Wheat fields say nothing to me. Which is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. SO it will be wonderful, once you've tamed me! The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I'll love the sound of the wind in the wheat..."
To me, it speaks volumes about what falling in love is like.
