Ivan Kadery

“Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

“It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important.’
‘It is the time I have spent with my rose …’ repeated the little prince, so that he wouldn’t forget.
‘People ignore this simple truth,’ said the fox. ‘But you must not. You are forever responsible for those you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“যে পথ চিনিয়া চলে তার পথ একটি, আর যে দিশাহারা হইয়া চলে তার পথ শত শত।”
― Adwaita Mallabarman, তিতাস একটি নদীর নাম

“You are not like my rose at all,’ he said to them. ‘You are not special yet. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. My fox was like you. He was like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique.’
And the roses felt quite uneasy.
‘You are beautiful, but you are hollow,’ he went on. ‘No one would give up their life for you. Of course an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looks just like you. But she’s more important than all of you – because I watered her, I sheltered her under a glass dome, and I protected her with a mesh. It was for her that I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three so she could see the butterflies). I have listened to her complaining, grumbling, boasting and even to her silence. Because she is my rose”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince