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 abo...
I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writin...
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.
I am an avid fisherman, and my daily schedule is to write in the morning and then go fishing in the afternoon. In Maine, I fish mostly for stripers, and in the Florida Keys, I go after all kinds of ga...
Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching
He's a feral child. No mother, no father, no one to care for him or raise him or teach him how to be human. So he's existed much like an animal, without language. He thinks in images, not word.How str...
I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.
Shut up! I say, holding my hands to my ears. Shut up!But the stupid gummy won't shut up; he's trying to tell me something important even though I'm covering my ears and I don't want to hear it and I d...
Every word is part of a picture, Every sentence is a picture. All you have to do is link them together.
Remembering is a great invention of the mind.
Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.
Do not despair, my friend. Today is theirs, but the future is ours
Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.
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 be...
BOOK, a four-letter word for truth serum -Kevin 'Freak' from Freak's Dictionary --Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick pg 161
When the dope fiend who lived there finally got busted. At first I’m thinking the dope fiend is back,
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.
Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.