I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.
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.
His heart was simply to big for his body.
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.
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
I think in some ways 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...
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 b...
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
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....
Scratches his tummy with the tip of her
Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.
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 f...
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
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...
I never had a brian till freak came along..
You could hear a mouse fart.
You can take him, right? he asks a couple minutes later.
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 thin...
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.
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.