Ruskin Bond Quotes

I like to be grounded by nature, go hiking... go to an isolated island that's not glamorous and touristy at all.

I keep coming back because I have no place else to go. What else would I do? I love to sing.

Do you know what people want more than anything? They want to be missed. They want to be missed the day they don't show up. They want to be missed when they're gone.

I seem to long for community and mistrust it in equal measure, and so I spend most of my days carefully constructing various communities in stories and seeing if they fly.

I feel Noah has been alone for the majority of his life and inherently searching for a family, even though he may not express that outwardly. But his encounter with Rosalee gave him hope in finding someone who thinks like him.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

What wonders lie in every mountain day!

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

In the mountains, there you feel free.

I want to feel myself part of things, of the great drift and swirl: not cut off, missing things, like being sent to bed early as a child, the blinds being drawn while the sun and cheerful voices came through the chink from the garden.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

I'm lonely and I'm still kind of searching for someone I can have a real connection with.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.

I want whatever part of you I can have.

that person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

Bean could see the hunger in their eyes. Not the regular hunger, for food, but the real hunger, the deep hunger, for family, for love, for belonging.

We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her.

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

The farther away, the closer the home becomes.

The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again. And I cannot spend the rest of my life standing on the spot starting at shifting sunlight and mist and shadows across the sea.

How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.