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Rodman Philbrick (born 1951) is an American writer of novels for adults and children. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and currently lives in Maine and Florida. He and Lynn Harnett were married from 1980 until her death in 2012. They collaborated on scary books for young readers, including The House on Cherry Street, The Werewolf Chronicles , and Visitors, three trilogies published by Scholastic, Inc. Philbrick has also written using the pen names W. R. Philbrick, William R. Dantz, and Chris Jordan.

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Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of everything, even pain.

Everything, Mind, Pain, State, Thinking, Way

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.

Cough, Giving, Laughing, Laughing So Hard, Running, Thump

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.

Fall, Morning, Two, Waiting, Wake

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.

Cool, Idea, Ideas, Rain, Thinking

The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you

Diamonds, Head, Memories, Real, Treasure

His heart was simply to big for his body.

Big, Bigs, Body, Heart, Simply

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

Expect, Like, Might, Moon, Think, Thinking

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.

Keep, Make, People, Son, Trying

remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not.

Great Inventions, Happened, Invention, Mind, Trying

Remembering is a great invention of the mind.

Great Inventions, Invention, Mind, Remember, Remembering

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

Despair, Future, My Friends, Today

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Bad, Good, Good Riddance, Motto, Riddance, Rubbish

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.

Amazing, Everyone, Fun, Pig, Pigs, Stars

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.

Bite, Blue, Finds, Hands, Sky

I never had a brian till freak came along.

Brian, Came, Freak, Till

I believe that we have the ability to change our lives using our imaginations. Imagination is a muscle—the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Believe, Imagination, Imaginations, Lives, Stronger

I wrote Freak the Mighty because Max, the mighty half of Freak the Mighty, insisted and he's bigger than I am.

Bigger, Freak, Half, Max, Mighty

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.

Bean, Dad, Family, Little Sister, Mom

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.

Book, Fake, Real, Tube, Watch