Ruskin Bond's Children's Omnibus Quotes

“It was a good river, deep and strong, beginning in the mountains and ending in the sea. Along its banks, for hundreds of miles, lived millions of people, and Sita was only one small girl among them, and no one had ever heard of her, no one knew her — except for the old man, and the boy, and the river.”
― Ruskin Bond, Children's Omnibus

“she knew that Grandmother was no longer with them. The dazed look in the old man's eyes told her as much. She wanted to cry — not for Grandmother, who could suffer no more, but for Grandfather, who looked so helpless and bewildered; she did not want him to be unhappy.”
― Ruskin Bond, Children's Omnibus

“if you have secrets, you must have a friend to share them with, a companion of one's own age.”
― Ruskin Bond, Children's Omnibus