Conversations between books

A conversation between my two favorite books:

“Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a friend, they never ask: “What does his voice sound like?” “What games does he like best?” “Does he collect butterflies? They ask: “How old is he?” “How many brothers does he have?” “How much does he weigh?”
~ from The Little Prince

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being..”
~from Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

“But, of course, those of us who understand life couldn’t care less about numbers!”
~from The Little Prince

“The difference between love and logic is that in the eyes of the lover, a toad can be a prince, whereas in the analysis of a logistician, the lover would have to prove that the toad was a prince.”
~from Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

“We don’t record flowers,” the geographer said.
“Why not? It’s the prettiest thing!”
“Because flowers are ephemeral…. It means, ‘which is threatened by imminent disappearance.'”
~from The Little Prince

“The most intense spiritual experiences all seem to involve the suspension of time. It is the feeling of being outside of time, of being timeless…
In a hundred different ways, we have mastered the art of space. We know know a great deal about space. Yet we know pitifully little about time…
Flowers do not see, hear, taste, or touch, but they react to light in a crucial manner, and they direct their lives and their environment through an orchestration of aroma.”
~from Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins

“It’s the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.”
~from The Little Prince