A Gathering of Friends: My Favourite Stories

by Ruskin Bond

And I was almost thirty—a fearful and wonderful age, when life becomes dangerous for dreamers.

It isn’t time that’s passing by, it is you and I.

I may stop loving you, Sushila, but I will never stop loving the days I loved you.

‘If women were not practical, most marriages would be failures.’

Sometimes, for our own sakes, we have to think of the happiness of others. What happiness would we have living in hiding from everyone we once knew and cared for.