“It is the time you have devoted to your rose that makes your rose so important…You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose…”  And there we have the key to understanding relationships. “Le Petit Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.  

When I was quite little my Mom would read this to me from her French edition and I would watch this old animated movie that was very short and very accurate to the book...but the internet has failed me because I can't seem to find that movie or any pictures. But I remember the Rose was half girl and half flower, not just a face in the flower like the current French CGI series. But I can't find any evidence of this having existed, but it's why when I imagine the Rose she has a human torso. 

Despite not having reread it for years (until last night) the picture in the first chapter (which all the adults think is a hat) has stayed with me and I have used it, probably unfairly I guess, to gauge what potential boyfriends were like in the imagination department. Rereading it as an adult now I can see the correlations with the time period and the author (the baobab trees are Nazis, the rose's personality and her relationship with the little prince is almost certainly based on the author's wife and their rocky marriage, etc.), but the lessons in it, especially the ones taught by the fox, are timeless.