Dark Road to Darjeeling Quotes

“One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Dark Road to Darjeeling

“When the wind is right and the cloud is gone, you can see down this road as far as Darjeeling," I told her. "But it is a long and difficult road, full of perils, and if a traveller on foot were to look at the length of it, his spirit would be overcome and he would sit down and refuse to go any further. You must not look to the end of the road, Portia. Look only to the step in front of you. That you can do. Just one step. And you will not make the journey alone.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Dark Road to Darjeeling

“By the time I had gathered my wits sufficiently to press the point the lamps had guttered out and Brisbane was sleeping heavily fatigued by his effortshighly successful efforts I must confessto divert me from the investigation. I lay awake physically satisfied but deeply annoyed. Even after nine months of marriage I was still not entirely comfortable with my responses to his physical overtures. The merest touch from him and all reasonable though seemed to fly out of my head. It was most disconcerting and more so because he apparently knew it I thought irritable.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Dark Road to Darjeeling

“Ah, do not mistake solitude for loneliness,” he advised. “A man may be lonely in a crowd, or he can be quite content in the society of the natural world.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Dark Road to Darjeeling

“She gave a theatrical sigh. For heaven's sake, Julia, don't be difficult. Climb onto the floating buffalo and let's be off. We are meant to cross this river before nightfall.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Dark Road to Darjeeling

“And when old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders. —Closed Path
Rabindranath Tagore”
― Deanna Raybourn, Dark Road to Darjeeling

“So many hours lost wishing for things I could never have. Take me for a warning, Julia. Do not long for what you cannot have. Accept what is and thank God for it, before he sees fit to take it from you.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Dark Road to Darjeeling

“The world would be a rather better place if we looked only for God in one another. -- Harry Cavendish”
― Deanna Raybourn, Dark Road to Darjeeling

“She had the face of a chocolate box Madonna and larceny in her heart.”
― Deanna Raybourn, Dark Road to Darjeeling