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You obviously haven't lived in D.C. very long if you think two and a half minutes is too soon to talk politics.

Shanahan {the head coach} doesn't allow failure to take root.

Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.

Psychology of small things rules.

{Excerpt from a standup routine by Matt Graham:}Last Friday, my roommate sent me out to get some canned fish, because we're having some Catholic survivalists over for dinner. Weirdest thing happened....

How you coach them is how they're going to play.

You can take him, right? he asks a couple minutes later

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...

You could hear a mouse fart.

scratches his tummy with the tip of her

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...

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

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.

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.

when the dope fiend who lived there finally got busted. At first I'm thinking the dope fiend is back

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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'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 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...

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.

It all boils down to this: A person has only two options in life, to do something or to do nothing.

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...

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 never had a brain until Freak came along and let me borrow his for a while, and that's the truth, the whole truth.

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.