it's as if a hand has come out...and taken yours

"The best moments 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." 

--Alan Bennett