My personal favorite is Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s dedication on The Little Prince. What are your favorites?

“To Leon Werth

I ask children to forgive me for dedicating this book to a grown-up. I have a serious excuse; this grown-up is the best friend I have in the world. I have another excuse: this grown-up can understand everything, even books for children. I have a third excuse: he lives in France where he is hungry and cold. He needs to be comforted. If all these excuses are not enough, then I want to dedicate this book to the child whom this grown-up once was. All grown-ups were children first. (But few of them remember it.) So I correct my dedication:

To Leon Werth When he was a little boy”

  • KangarouBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Every dedication to Beatrice in A Series of Unfortunate Events. The one I remember best is “When we met, you were pretty and I was lonely. Now, I’m pretty lonely.”

  • introitBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Amanda,

    You are with me everwhere,

    I see you where i go,

    As if you surround me always,

    Even though

    I know

    Exactly where I buried you.

    Edit: From How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix

    (Thanks, kind redditor)

  • haloarhBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “My first stepfather used to say that what I didn’t know would fill a book. Well, here it is.”

    -Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life

  • viper_in_the_grassBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t remember the book, author, or the exact quote, but it was something like this: “To my wife and children, without whom this book would have come out much sooner”.