“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“Remembering is a great invention of the mind.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“I never had a brian till freak came along..”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“His heart was simply to big for his body.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“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.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“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.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body' ”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“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.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“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.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“MASSIVES, fat heads who assume that television tells the truth" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“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”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“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.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“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.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“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.”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“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”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
“when the dope fiend who lived there finally got busted. At first I’m thinking the dope fiend is back,”
― Rodman Philbrick, quote from Freak the Mighty
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“I know, 0 Caesar, that thou art awaiting my arrival with impatience, that thy true heart of a friend is yearning day and night for me. I know that thou art ready to cover me with gifts, make me prefect of the pretorian guards, and command Tigellinus to be that which the gods made him, a mule-driver in those lands which thou didst inherit after poisoning Domitius. Pardon me, however, for I swear to thee by Hades, and by the shades of thy mother, thy wife, thy brother, and Seneca, that I cannot go to thee. Life is a great treasure. I have taken the most precious jewels from that treasure, but in life there are many things which I cannot endure any longer. Do not suppose, I pray, that I am offended because thou didst kill thy mother, thy wife, and thy brother; that thou didst burn Eome and send to Erebus all the honest men in thy dominions. No, grandson of Chronos. Death is the inheritance of man; from thee other deeds could not have been expected. But to destroy one's ear for whole years with thy poetry, to see thy belly of a Domitius on slim legs whirled about in a Pyrrhic dance; to hear thy music, thy declamation, thy doggerel verses, wretched poet of the suburbs, — is a thing surpassing my power, and it has roused in me the wish to die. Eome stuffs its ears when it hears thee; the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling. Farewell, but make no music; commit murder, but write no verses; poison people, but dance not; be an incendiary, but play not on a cithara. This is the wish and the last friendly counsel sent thee by the — Arbiter Elegantiae.”
― Henryk Sienkiewicz, quote from Quo Vadis
“But the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from Just So Stories
“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”
― Anne Brontë, quote from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“The music room’s in the next wing. We can have coffee and brandy there.”
“I doubt we’d share the same taste in music, Roarke.”
“You might be surprised,” he murmured, “at what we share.” He touched her cheek again, this time sliding his hand around until it cupped the back of her neck. “At what we will share.”
― J.D. Robb, quote from Naked in Death
“And this is how the ending starts.”
― L.J. Smith, quote from The Fury / Dark Reunion
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