Freak the Mighty Quotes

“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

“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

“Remembering is a great invention of the mind.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

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

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

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

“Good riddance to bad rubbish.”
― 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

“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

“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

“Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“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, 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

“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

“I never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that’s the truth, the whole truth.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“MASSIVES, fat heads who assume that television tells the truth" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 165”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“READING, beaming up into books" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 167”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“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, Freak the Mighty

“BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum" -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --"Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“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, Freak the Mighty

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

“For the last week or so it’s like getting jabbed with a little needle every time I hear that word. Gram is trying to pretend how excited she is I’m finally in the eighth grade, like this is a really big deal. Which is a joke, because the only reason I got passed from seventh grade is because they figured this way the big butthead can be — quote — someone else’s problem, thank God, we’ve had quite enough of Maxwell Kane — unquote.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“freak the mighty is the best book I ever read so I recommend it to anyone who likes good books that have different feellings and emotions”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“when the dope fiend who lived there finally got busted. At first I’m thinking the dope fiend is back,”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“You could hear a mouse fart.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“Books are a truth serum, if you don't read, you won't know what's true or not.
-Freak the Mighty”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

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

“So out we go. It’s a habit by now, Freak riding up high on my shoulders and using his little feet to steer me if I forget where we’re going. Not that we always know. Freak likes to make things up as he goes along. You think you’re just walking down this ordinary sidewalk and really you’re crossing this dangerous bridge, the kind made of vines that hangs high up in the air over a deep canyon, and when Freak makes it up it seems so real, you’re afraid to look down or you’ll get dizzy and fall off the sidewalk.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty

“We’re Freak the Mighty, that’s who we are. We’re nine feet tall, in case you haven’t noticed.” That’s how it started, really, how we got to be Freak the Mighty, slaying dragons and fools and walking high above the world.”
― Rodman Philbrick, Freak the Mighty