Flowers are so inconsistent! - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction.

Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend.

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you — - the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.