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    ″‘The young man is a genius,’ Grim is saying. ‘And I don’t use that word lightly.‘”
    Rodman Philbrick
    author
    Freak the Mighty
    book
    Grim
    Kevin Avery
    characters
    genius
    compliments
    intelligence
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    02
    ″ ‘You’re too big to huddle and cuddle,’ he said. ‘And I’ll never fit both of us into my bed.’ ”
    Eddie
    character
    teddy
    big
    cuddling
    fit
    concepts
    03
    “Evelyn was a miserable and resentful wife before she met Mrs. Threadgoode at the Rose Terrance Nursing Home. Before their meeting, she often thought about committing suicide because she was so unhappy and depressed with the way her life was going.”
    04
    “She was a young lady whom a gentleman need no longer be at pains to respect.”
    05
    “I love Miss Stacy with my whole heart, Marilla. She is so ladylike and she has such a sweet voice. When she pronounces my name I feel instinctively that she’s spelling it with an E.”
    06
    These hearts of ours are curious and contrary things, and time and nature work their will in spite of us.
    07
    ″‘Who is it?’ ‘Young Russell, from Flambards.’ ‘Oh, aye, young William. My God, what’ll the old man say about it?’ ‘He’d worry more if it were Mark.‘”
    08
    “When she played her music even the night demons stopped their work & it took them some time to remember what it was they were doing & the best of them had no stomach for it for a long time after that.”
    09
    “In general, a prosperous people. Farm ranchers, most of them, they are outdoor folk of very varied stock—German, Irish, Norwegian, Mexican, Japanese.”
    10
    Ben has the strange ability to soothe and control animals, and this makes him valuable to the older and crueler boy who hunts the animals Ben Calls.

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