““Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get away on my own. Surely, I thought, I must be the saddest child in the world; that there must be something innately horrid about me to cause my father to cast me off so heartlessly. I believed that if I could discover what it was, there might be a chance of putting things right, of somehow making it up to him.””
![“I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first, but their hearts weren't in it. And after all, they had enough troubles of their own.” quote by Rabih Alameddine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e04/rabih-alameddine-7394_books_i-was-a-lonely-boy-i-spent-all-my-time-r_1701817.jpg)
