The Room On The Roof Quotes

The room on the roof by ruskin bond 6 311 ratings 4 09 average rating 438 reviews the room on the roof quotes showing 1 6 of 6 i don t want to rot like mangoes at the end of the season or burnout like the sun at the and of the day.

The room on the roof quotes.

Bond wrote the novel when he was seventeen and won the john llewellyn rhys memorial prize in 1957. It is in fact deceptively simple for no two sentences are alike. And when all the wars are over a butterfly will still be beautiful to be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast and people often ask me why my style is so simple. It also well deserves the oscar it won for cinematography.

374 quotes from ruskin bond. The novel revolves around rusty an orphaned seventeen year old anglo indian boy living in dehradun due to his guardian mr harrison s strict ways he runs away from his home to live with his indian friends. It is clarity that i am striving to attain not simplicity. The room on the roof was soon published and it went on to receive the john llewellyn rhys prize.

All page numbers and citation info for the quotes below refer to the new directions edition of cat on a hot tin roof published in 2004. The room on the roof is a novel written by ruskin bond it was bond s first literary venture. Act 2 quotes maybe that s why you put maggie and me in this room that was jack straw s and peter ochello s in which that pair of old sisters slept in a double bed where both of em died.