The Essential Collection for Young Readers Quotes

“It would be a dull world if it was the same everywhere,”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“It is better to be a human without any gifts than a Jinn or a genius with one too many.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“keep”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“disappeared!”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“with”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“Chota”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“spruce”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“above my head. I shrank away, but the hornbill made no attempt to attack me. He was relaxing in his home, which was a great hole in the tree trunk. Only the bird’s head and great beak were showing. He looked at me in rather a bored way, drowsily opening and shutting his eyes. ‘So many creatures live here,’ I said to myself. ‘I hope none of them is dangerous!’ At that moment the hornbill lunged at a passing cricket. Bill and tree trunk met with a loud and resonant ‘Tonk!’ I was so startled that I nearly fell out of the tree. But it was a difficult tree to fall out of! It was full of places where one could sit or even lie down. So I moved away from the hornbill, crawled along a branch which had sent out supports, and so moved quite a distance from the main body of the tree. I left its cold, dark”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“Mozambique and Timbuctoo. We took long walks together, explored old ruins, chased butterflies and waved to passing”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“Hitler’s signature is ugly, as you would expect.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“stars are the spirits of good men,”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers

“A Scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties.’ And”
― Ruskin Bond, The Essential Collection for Young Readers