"Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain."
— Rodman Philbrick (Freak the Mighty)

"Remembering is a great invention of the mind."
— Rodman Philbrick (Freak the Mighty)

"Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real."
— Rodman Philbrick (Freak the Mighty)

"The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you"
— Rodman Philbrick (The Last Book In The Universe)

"Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours"
— Rodman Philbrick (The Last Book In The Universe)

"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 (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 (Freak the Mighty)

"Good riddance to bad rubbish."
— Rodman Philbrick (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 (Freak the Mighty)

"I never had a brian till freak came along..""
— Rodman Philbrick (Freak the Mighty)

""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

"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

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

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— Rodman Philbrick (Freak the Mighty)

"In his opinion, humans were best when miserable, and so he had worked at being miserable his whole life, and in his generous way tried to make as many people miserable as possible."
— Rodman Philbrick (The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg)

"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.""
— Rodman Philbrick (The Last Book In The Universe)

"The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like."
— Rodman Philbrick (The Last Book In The Universe)

"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 (Freak the Mighty)