Quotes by Rodman Philbrick

Keep marching boys and girls. Keep marching

I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but thats over and I dont want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if theres one thing I learned from Ryter its that you cant always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front.

Books are like truth serum-- if you dont read, you cant figure out whats real.

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

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

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

Shut up! I say, holding my hands to my ears. Shut up!But the stupid gummy wont shut up; hes trying to tell me something important even though Im covering my ears and I dont want to hear it and I dont want to think about who I am or whats wrong with me or why Im out here at the edge of the Urb, at the edge of the known world, listening to some old mope whos so crazy, he think about the future when everyone knows that the future doesnt exist.

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.

I think in some ways its like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. Were all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.Keep marching, boys and girls. Keep marching.

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

You ever notice how long it takes for things to happen when you know theyre 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.

I know who the real hero is, and it isnt me or brave Lanaya. Its an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it wont let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read.

Im thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until theres nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasnt cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.

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 game fish.