"you will look into the faces of passers by hoping for something that will for an instant bring me back to you."

"you will find moonlit nights strangely empty because when you call my name through them there will be no answer."

"always your heart will be aching for me and your mind will give you the doubtful consolation that you did a brave thing."

"i been aching for a feeling that i never felt, a presence that’ve never met, longing for a love that i’ve never received."

"you may as well take my heart, catherine, it is already full of you."

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

"To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.”

“I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.”