Freddie Vaneps

“Crickey, love, what happened here? Are you hurt?” he asked, lifting her to her feet, the surfboard leash still wrapped around her foot.

Her eyes worked their way up his torso, along the plush green towel hugging his midsection. Catherine couldn’t help staring at his well-formed abs and chest before making her way up to his concerned eyes.

“Obviously I fell,” Catherine said. “I think I got a splinter.”

“Let me see,” Jake insisted, taking her hand into his. “It’s small. I can take care of that in a snap.”

Staring up into his deep blue eyes, Catherine could feel herself drowning in the depths of them, unconsciously resting her other hand upon his dampened chest to steady herself.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

“One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.”
― Tom Clancy, Red Rabbit

“Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat