“I want…I turn to reading when times get hard. Lose yourself for a while, we all need that sometimes. People say they don’t deserve it, that none of us do. But we’re serving our time. A lot of us won’t breathe free air again. Reading isn’t a privilege, sir. I believe we all have the right to leave our problems and escape into another world, if only through the written word.” Patch heard the words leaving Cooper’s mouth as he spoke them verbatim. Six months practicing. A single shot would miss or hit.
