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1. "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 want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front." ~ Rodman Philbrick
2. "Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours" ~ Rodman Philbrick
3. "Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real." ~ Rodman Philbrick
4. "I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read." ~ Rodman Philbrick
5. "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
6. "Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain." ~ Rodman Philbrick
7. "You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember." ~ Rodman Philbrick
8. "His heart was simply to big for his body." ~ Rodman Philbrick
9. "I never had a brian till freak came along.." ~ Rodman Philbrick
10. "Good riddance to bad rubbish." ~ Rodman Philbrick
11. "It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing." ~ Rodman Philbrick
12. "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 truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking." ~ Rodman Philbrick
13. "Shut up!" I say, holding my hands to my ears. "Shut up!"But the stupid gummy won't shut up; he's trying to tell me something important even though I'm covering my ears and I don't want to hear it and I don't want to think about who I am or what's wrong with me or why I'm out here at the edge of the Urb, at the edge of the known world, listening to some old mope who's so crazy, he think about the future when everyone knows that the future doesn't exist." ~ Rodman Philbrick
14. "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
15. "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
16. "Dead man has nothin' to lose, nothin' to be feared of. Now I'm back among the living and scared to death about what happens next.—Samuel Reed" ~ Rodman Philbrick
17. "He's a feral child. No mother, no father, no one to care for him or raise him or teach him how to be human. So he's existed much like an animal, without language. He thinks in images, not word.""How strange," Lanaya, sounding amazed.Ryter shakes his head sadly. "Not strange, I'm afaraid. His condition is all too common in the latches. And becoming more common every day." ~ Rodman Philbrick
18. "That does it. It can't be true love. Mr. Willow has eyes like a sick kitten. You might love a sick kitten but you don't marry it, you keep it as a pet." ~ Rodman Philbrick
19. "BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161" ~ Rodman Philbrick
20. "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
21. "The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you" ~ Rodman Philbrick
22. "I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain." ~ Rodman Philbrick
23. "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
24. "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 it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?""No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored." ~ Rodman Philbrick
25. "READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167" ~ Rodman Philbrick
26. "It's fun to be amazing, to be the star of the show, to have everyone watching you—even if you have to act like a pig." ~ Rodman Philbrick
27. "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
28. "Will it hurt?" I ask. "Getting your parts replaced?"Freak doesn't answer for a while and then he says in his stern, smart voice, "Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain."I'm pretty worried about the whole deal, and I go, "But why do you want to be the first? Can't someone else be first? Isn't it dangerous?"Life is dangerous," Freak says." ~ Rodman Philbrick
29. "Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together." ~ Rodman Philbrick
30. "Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching" ~ Rodman Philbrick

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