The Writer on the Hill Quotes

“There is a distinction to be made between aloneness and loneliness.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond

“Listen to the night wind in the trees, Listen to the summer grass singing; Listen to the time that’s tripping by, And the dawn dew falling. Listen to the moon as it climbs the sky, Listen to the pebbles humming; Listen to the mist in the trembling leaves, And the silence calling.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond

“And the last puff of the day-wind brought from the unseen villages the scent of damp wood-smoke, hot cakes, dripping undergrowth, and rotting pine-cones. That is the true smell of the Himalayas, and if once it creeps into the blood of a man, that man will at the last, forgetting all else, return to the hills to die. —Rudyard Kipling”
― Ruskin Bond, The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond

“Some memories are best left untouched.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond

“You must pass your exams and go to college, but do not feel that if you fail, you will be able to do nothing.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond

“Red roses for young lovers. French beans for long-standing relationships!”
― Ruskin Bond, The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond

“the best ones are often the most difficult to find. But”
― Ruskin Bond, The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond

“There is no moral to the story, any more than there is a moral to life. We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond

“Malcolm Muggeridge who said that the only real Englishmen left in the world were to be found in India.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Writer on the Hill: The Very Best of Ruskin Bond