#captureyourgrief
11:21 AMDay 6 - Books
As soon as I read The Little Prince in 11th grade, I knew it was a book I wanted to read to my children. I'm re-reading it now and realizing it feels more like a book for adults, since it teaches a lot of life lessons and doesn't read in a way children easily understand. But it still reminds me of Grayson, because he is my little prince and because I feel like he's taught me so much about life and love, similar to how "the little prince" taught the pilot about these same things.
When the little prince has to go back to his planet, the pilot becomes sad, because he'll miss the little boy he grew to love. The prince comforts him with:
“For the travelers the stars are guides. For others they are nothing but tiny lights...
“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 feel like Grayson is telling me the same thing. The stars aren't special to everybody. Not everyone finds them interesting. But to me, the stars represent the Heaven that my little boy lives in, and he is happy there. And when I look up at the night sky, I will feel like the stars are laughing because Grayson is laughing. The stars will remind me that Grayson is somewhere beautiful and full of joy.
There are about a hundred other quotes I could talk about, but this is the one that really stood out to me yesterday as I was thinking about this post.
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I love The Little Prince, too. I was reading it recently and there are so many excellent quotes in it that remind me of Liam.
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