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.

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

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

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 our tomorrows.

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

I never had a brian till freak came along.

You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.