Rodman Philbrick - Freak the Mighty (1993)

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

Rodman Philbrick

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

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