Rodman Philbrick Quotes

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Books are like truth serum— if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

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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.

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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.

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I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

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Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours

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The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

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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.

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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.

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Remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

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I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

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It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

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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.

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Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

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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 why people do what they do.

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