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”
Stephen King Fan here, and often I listen to audiobooks for my rereads. Stephen king does a dedication to Frank Muller, who recorded the audiobook versions of a good number of Kings books, and who was in an unfortunate motorcycle accident and passed on.
“For Frank Muller, who hears the voices in my head.”
Didn’t understand the impact until I started listening to the audiobooks Frank did.