#chap

The feeling made him wonder what he would have become if only he’d been allowed to live a normal life. Sports, he knew, would’ve suited him. He was bigger, stronger and much faster than most boys his age. Football was probably the game for him. He liked watching Joshua playing at quarterback, imagining what it would be like to be in his position. To hear the crowd cheering as he made a pass, to feel accepted by his teammates – they were experiences forever denied him. It was nice to daydream though. ↗

— Phillip W. Simpson

#age

Yes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. You can help me. You can open for me the portals of death's house, for love is always with you, and love is stronger than death is. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#beauty

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin. ↗

— Alex Winter

#charlie #charlie chaplin #favorite #favorites #fellini

He doesn't even care about you!" Warner explodes. I flinch at the sudden, uncontrolled intensity in his voice. "He just wants a way out of here and he's using you!" He steps forward. "I could love you, juliette-I would treat you like a queen- ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#love

Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin in a letter to his daughter Geraldine

#charlie-chaplin #love #naked #soul #vip

Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him. ↗

— Kenneth Roberts

#oliver-wiswell #business

He’d tried to tell Aimi to do something once, and that hadn’t gone well at all. One thing he did know: when a woman got an idea into her head, there was no changing it. ↗

— Phillip W. Simpson

#change

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” Corinthians, 15:52 ↗

— Phillip W. Simpson

#change

You know, school’s not all that great,” she said. “I’d much rather stay here at home with you and Papa.” - Aimi ↗

— Phillip W. Simpson

#chapter- #home

By today’s standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. ↗

— Hailey Giblin

#holly-wells #ian-huntley #jessica-chapman #maxine-carr #soham