“And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.”
![“[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.” quote by Arthur Koestler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f1c/arthur-koestler-1903_distance_my-father-loved-me-tenderly-and-shyly-fr_277351.jpg)
