Viji (Bookish endeavors)

“The written word has taught me to listen to the human voice, much as the great unchanging statues have taught me to appreciate bodily motions. On the other hand, but more slowly, life has thrown light for me on the meaning of books.”
― Marguerite Yourcenar, Memoirs of Hadrian

“How we take it for granted – those trivial conversations; those mundane moments that we think hold no meaning. We never realise how much we rely on the ordinariness of everyday life. When love is gone – when our entire world is gone – only then do we understand those moments are what we live for.”
― Dianna Hardy, Cry Of The Wolf

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales