“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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“But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so
beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
“she watched his face because she hoped it would betray some indication of her own reality – some flicker of interest or concentration of notice which might indicate that she was actually present with another person.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Mirror of Her Dreams
“عندما يُرتكب عمل ذميم باسم عقيدة ما، أيّا كانت، لا تصبح هذه العقيدة مذنبة.”
― Amin Maalouf, quote from In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“It's beautiful here and we're still unhappy”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Enduring Love
“Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
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