Rodman Philbrick

Quotes by Rodman Philbrick

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

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• Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.

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• Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

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• 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.

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• Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

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• Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.

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

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• Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

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• Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

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• 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.

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• There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.

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• After I had written more than a dozen adult genre novels, an editor I knew in New York asked me to write a mystery for young adults.

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