← One day, talking of her four thorns, she told him: “If those tigers try to come here with their claws, I’m ready for them!” 🔊✎
← And she naively showed him her four thorns. 🔊✎
← The first time was twenty-two years ago. Some stupid duck from God knows where fell out of the sky and made so much noise I messed up four sums. 🔊✎
← What the little prince didn’t dare admit to himself was that he was mostly sad to be missing all the sunsets on this wonderful planet, one thousand four hundred and forty of them every twenty-four hours! 🔊✎
← “My flower is ephemeral,” said the little prince to himself, “and she only has four thorns to defend herself against the world! And I have left her all alone!” 🔊✎
← To give you an idea of how big the Earth is, I will tell you that before the invention of electricity it was necessary, on the six continents, to maintain a veritable army of four hundred and sixty-two thousand, five hundred and eleven lamplighters. 🔊✎
← “Say you came at four o’clock. By three I’ll already start to feel happy. 🔊✎
← By four, I’ll be feeling nervous and worried; well, I’ll find out that that’s the price of happiness! 🔊✎
← And she’s so weak! And so naïve. She just has four useless little thorns to defend herself against the world…” 🔊✎