Rodman Philbrick > Quotes

“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

“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“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, The Last Book in the Universe

“Remembering is a great invention of the mind.”
― 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

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

“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

“Good riddance to bad rubbish.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

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

“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

“Remembering is just an invention of the mind... It means that if you want to, you can remember anything, whether it happened or not... You don't need a time machine if you can remember.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“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

“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. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.”
― Rodman Philbrick

“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, The Last Book in the Universe

“I never had a brian till freak came along..”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“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, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

“His heart was simply to big for his body.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

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

“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, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

“Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true and what's fake, which isn't always easy. Books are like truth serum--if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”
― 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

“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, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg

“Books are like truth serum—if you don’t read, you can’t figure out what’s real.”
― Rodman Philbrick

“Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg