A quotation.

"The best moment in reading are when you come across something...a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things that you'd thought special, particular to you, and here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And...it's as if a hand...has come out...and taken yours."-- From Hector

. A middle school teacher reading poetry and literature with eight young boys. The only consolation may be to give them their own "benedictions" every time in the name of taking them home.
He originally wanted to have a car full of books and travel the world. He eventually passed away in a car accident. Maybe this is his life.
Asking for but not getting it, boundless loneliness, only books can comfort me.
However, it was never a soft, warm, real hand, was it?

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