The recurring theme of 'matters of consequence.' The grown-ups use it for dull things like geography and sums. The prince uses it for a sunset, a flower, a friend. Loneliness, in this framework, comes from misidentifying what is truly of consequence. If you think owning stars is of consequence, you'll be lonely. If you think a single rose is of consequence, you'll cultivate a friendship. The quotes about consequence aren't directly about loneliness, but they define the value system that either leads to it or escapes it. Friendship is choosing a different set of 'consequences.'
The prince's lament about the rose: 'I ought to have judged her by her deeds and not by her words. She perfumed my planet and lit it up. I ought never to have run away!' This is post-friendship insight. His loneliness drove him to run away from the difficult, vain rose. But through his journeys and his friendship with the fox, he realizes her true value was in her actions, not her prickly words. Friendship taught him to see past surface loneliness (her nagging) to the underlying connection (her scent and light). It's about how true friendship trains you to interpret others with more grace, reducing future loneliness.
The businessman's logic: 'I own them. I am rich. I buy more stars if any are discovered.' His concept of 'ownership' is the antithesis of friendship. You can't own a friend; you build a relationship with them. His loneliness comes from confusing possession with connection. He thinks counting and owning stars brings him worth, but it's an empty, numerical relationship with the universe. The prince's friendships are about responsibility and care, not ownership. The quote highlights how a materialistic worldview is a direct path to a lonely, disconnected existence.
What about the quote from the businessman who owns the stars? 'I am concerned with matters of consequence.' He's counting stars he can't touch, claiming to own them, and calls this 'consequence.' The prince thinks this is less useful than a flower or a lamplighter. This character embodies a profound, self-imposed loneliness—being so obsessed with pointless possession that he's blind to real connection. His quote doesn't mention friendship or loneliness directly, but it screams about the kind of life that chooses abstraction over relationship, leading to the deepest kind of isolation.
The visual of the prince on his asteroid, moving his chair to watch sunsets. 'One day, I saw the sun set forty-four times... You know, when one is so sad, one loves sunsets.' That's pure, poetic loneliness. He's so sad (lonely, missing his rose) that he seeks the comfort of a beautiful, solitary spectacle repeatedly. There's no one to share it with. It's a coping mechanism for loneliness. Friendship later provides a shared experience, but this quote is the quintessential image of dealing with profound sadness through solitary, repetitive beauty.
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"I'll marry you when I grow up." The little Prince chimes as he steadies himself to walk on top of an old abandoned log.
"You can't. A Prince should marry a Princess, and I'm not a Princess so you can't marry me."She says before resuming back to the coloring book in front of her.
With a grunt he hops off the wood. "My mom said I can do whatever I want when im King. And I want to marry you. Simple as that."
The great prince who acquires immense supernatural powers hopelessly fell in love with his best friend. At the age of five, they swore to be by each others side but fate has other plans for them.
After years of heartbreak and loneliness, Amara has convinced herself that love is not meant for her. Growing up surrounded by loss and disappointment, she builds walls around her heart and focuses only on surviving each day.
When she moves to a new city hoping to start over, fate leads her to Daniel, a quiet but kind man who sees through the pain she tries so hard to hide. Their connection begins as friendship, but slowly Daniel shows Amara something she has never truly felt before—a love that is patient, genuine, and healing.
But the past refuses to stay buried. Old wounds, secrets, and fear threaten to pull them apart. Amara must decide whether to keep running from love or finally believe that she deserves it.
As their lives intertwine, she begins to understand a powerful truth: sometimes love arrives when you least expect it—and when it does, it reminds you that no matter how broken you feel, you are never truly alone.
After being enslaved for fourteen months, she was chosen as the Prince's personal slave. Of course she's heard about him. The cold hearted prince the entire kingdom wouldn't stop gossiping about. Then, her fairytale world is crumbled to dust. All hope of freedom gone as hate flashes from all corners, together with pain and distress. How would she survive? Will there be a little glint of hope for her? Or maybe her hope is.....
Encouragement is all need dear readers. I'm sure you can all give that. Join me in this exciting long ride. Thank y'all.
-Je ne veux pas d'une relation en ce moment.
-Qui t'a parlé de relation?minaude Elyn au creux de son oreille qu'elle mordille au passage. Laisse-moi m'occuper de toi.
-C'est vraiment ce que tu veux? lui demande Hendrick. À une seule condition. ajoute-t-il sans attendre de réponse.
-Laquelle? demande Elyn intriguée.
-Ce sera juste charnel entre nous. Pas de place pour les sentiments, encore moins pour l'amour.
Elle déglutit devant autant de froideur dans sa voix.
-Marché conclut.
*****
Planté devant l'autel le jour de son mariage, Hendrick atterit dans un bar pour faire passer sa frustration et sa colère, où il va faire la connaissance d'Elyn. Après des nuits passées ensembles, ils continuent à se voir chacun dans un but précis. Elyn; pour de l'argent parce qu'il est juste un client, et Hendrick pour le plaisir. Mais est-ce vraiment juste du sexe entre eux ou l'amour s'en est mêlé?
Une seule règle, pas de place pour les sentiments, encore moins pour l'amour...
Her name is Luna. No one sees her except her twin sister. She envies her twin sister's life, although their parents never failed to tell her they love her even though they can't see her. Luna was in total darkness while her twin sister had the life she wanted to be. She wanted to be as happy as her twin sister, but how? She's invisible. The thought depresses her so much that it leads her to run away from the palace.
However, she accidentally fell into the portal, going to other dimensions that she didn't know existed. She doesn't know how to come back to her world. Later on, she accepts her fate and lives a life of being in different places, especially when something strange happens to her. She misses her family so much, but how could she come back? Will she remain forever in different dimensions? Will she survive alone?
Unexpectedly, a twist happened. Leena, twin sister of Luna, fell into the portal too when she learned that her twin sister accidentally fell into the mysterious portal tree. However, fate never let them see each other and she's gone to a different dimension. The twins face a different path. Will Leena find Luna? Will they reunite again?
The prince’s rose with her four thorns: 'Let them come, the tigers, with their claws! I’m not afraid of them!' She’s putting on a brave, defiant front. That’s a performance of non-loneliness, of strength. But the Prince sees through it to her vulnerability. Often, loneliness is hidden behind bravado or vanity. The rose is lonely and scared on her asteroid, but she covers it with bluster. The theme explores the masks people wear to conceal their solitude.
‘I myself own a flower,’ he continued his conversation with the businessman, ‘which I water every day…’ That daily, simple act of care. Watering your flower. Checking on your friend. It’s the mundane, repeated attention that sustains a living bond. Friendship isn’t a one-time event; it’s the daily watering.
'It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.' Isolation can sometimes come from excessive self-judgment or feeling judged. This quote inspires turning that critical gaze inward with kindness. If you can't properly judge yourself, maybe you should stop judging yourself so harshly for feeling lonely. It's a call for self-compassion as a first step out of isolation.
There are days when a single line from 'The Little Prince' pops into my head and reshuffles my whole mood. I keep going back to the fox's lesson because it nails what friendship actually is: not a constant high, but a choosing, a settling-in. Lines like "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye" and "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" always make me breathe slower and think of the people who stuck around when I was messy and exhausted.
I also find comfort in the quieter, almost apologetic bits: "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important." That little confession reframes effort as love rather than obligation, which is a balm in modern friendships where everyone is so rushed. Whenever I tuck a quote into a note to a friend, I try to pick one that feels like a mirror rather than a lecture — something that says, "I see you, and I chose you." The book's gentle, weird charm keeps making me a bit braver about saying thank you out loud.
The fox's line about the color of wheat. 'I shall love to listen to the sound of the wind in the wheat...' The fox, once tamed, will no longer see wheat fields as meaningless. They will be a golden reminder of the prince's hair. This is how connection retroactively colors the world. A previously neutral or even lonely landscape becomes full of meaning and memory. Loneliness is the state where nothing in the environment refers to a beloved. Growth through connection means the entire world becomes a network of gentle reminders, so you're never fully alone. The sound of the wind, a certain color, a scent—all can summon the presence of the one you've tamed. The fox teaches that love is a kind of alchemy that transforms the mundane into a tapestry of connection, permanently altering your perception of the world.