Rodman Philbrick Quotes

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• Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.
• I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.
• Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching
• Remembering is a great invention of the mind.
• Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.
• Good riddance to bad rubbish.
• Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.
• Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours
• The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you
• I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of…
• remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.
• I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for awhile, and that's the truth, the whole truth. The unvanquished…
• I never had a brian till freak came along..
• 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,…
• The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.
• I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were.…
• You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.
• It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.
• I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't…
• Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into…

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