Vidhya

“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
― Annie Dillard, The Living

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye