Lone Fox Dancing Quotes

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep’, it is good to have someone to lean on from time to time, and in that respect this agnostic has been blessed by the gods. I still value my solitude, but it is also nice to have someone tucking me into bed at night.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“Sometimes, well into middle age, I composed letters to my father. In my dreams, I would meet him on a busy street, after many lost years, and he would receive me with the same old warmth. We would get into a little train together, or sit in a dark hall, watching a screen lit up with bright, moving images. 'Where were you all these years?' I would ask him, and he would ruffle my hair. My father hadn't died; he was a traveller in a different dimension, and he would turn up every now and then, just to see if I was all right.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing

“For better or worse, we are all shaped by our parents.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“I was never afraid of the dark, and till today I see the night as a friend, giving me the privacy that I find so hard to find by day. Starlight, moonlight, early dawn, all have a special loveliness about them.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“No life is more, or less, important or interesting than another—much of it, after all, is lived inside our heads.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“Some friends—their eyes, their touch, their
words—cannot be erased from our memory.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing

“The Land of Regrets, someone had called India; but for me it was a land of acceptances.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“Eighteen, and in control of my own destiny. For that man is strongest who stands alone.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“This is the evening of a long and fairly fulfilling life. And it is late evening in Landour. A misty, apricot light suffuses the horizon. Down in the villages the apricots are ripening. A small boy brought me the fresh fruit this morning—still very sour, very tangy, but full of promise. And if apricots could take precedence over missiles, the world would be full of promise too. I’m afraid science and politics have let us down. But the cricket still sings on the window-sill.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“Sometimes it is good to fail; to lose what you most desire; to come second. And the future is too unpredictable for anxiety.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“She was always singing to herself, or to the sheep, or to the grass, showing me how much I still needed to learn about contentment. What’s all the running around for, she seemed to say. Sit down, stop chasing, and the words will come, and maybe love, too.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“belonged to the hot sunshine and muddy canals, the banyan trees and the mango groves, the smell of wet earth after summer rain, the relief of a monsoon thunderstorm, the laughing brown faces. And the intimacy of human contact—that was what I had missed the most in England. The orderly life, the good sense and civility were all admirable, but they did nothing for the soul. I missed the freedom to touch someone without being misunderstood; the freedom to hold someone’s hand as a mark of affection rather than desire, but also to show desire without reserve and find fulfilment. I missed being among strangers without feeling like an outsider; I missed everything that made it all right to be sentimental and emotional.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“suppose most writers, to a greater or lesser extent, base their fictional characters upon real people. Mine come very close to the reality. It is my own response to them that varies. The most fictional of all my characters is myself.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography

“Strange, how the human race can elevate the vilest of men to positions of all-powerful tyranny and then take an equal pleasure in dragging them down into the dust. Even good men can be destroyed if they excite the envy of their fellows.”
― Ruskin Bond, Lone Fox Dancing: My Autobiography