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Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.
Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.
Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.
Remembering is a great invention of the mind.
You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.
I never had a brian till freak came along..
His heart was simply to big for his body.
remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.
You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know they're supposed to happen? My fake Walkman has a built-in alarm, and I set it for two in the morning and wear the headphones to bed, but before you can wake up you have to fall asleep, and I never DO fall asleep because I keep waiting for the alarm to go off.
Remembering is just an invention of the mind... It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not... You don't need a time machine if you can remember.
I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'
Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.
Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.
Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy. Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.
MASSIVES, fat heads who assume that television tells the truth" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165
BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161
LIBRARY, where they keep the truth serum, and the magic carpets" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165
READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167
I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that’s the truth, the whole truth.
What a goon, except it really is funny, me trying to sneeze a hot dog through my nose, and we're both laughing like total morons.
Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.
For the last week or so it’s like getting jabbed with a little needle every time I hear that word. Gram is trying to pretend how excited she is I’m finally in the eighth grade, like this is a really big deal. Which is a joke, because the only reason I got passed from seventh grade is because they figured this way the big butthead can be — quote — someone else’s problem, thank God, we’ve had quite enough of Maxwell Kane — unquote.
freak the mighty is the best book I ever read so I recommend it to anyone who likes good books that have different feellings and emotions
when the dope fiend who lived there finally got busted. At first I’m thinking the dope fiend is back,

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