Don Jacobson > Quotes

“This time of the year was always when the family gathered. True, even here, Jane was surrounded by her children. They were born by her much as if they had been of her womb. She loved them as well, but she only ever needed one.”
― Don Jacobson, The Last Gift: An Austenesque Short Story

“Of all the events leading up to the departure for the shore, though, was one that had been months in the making. The two souls in question had been united at first through their mutual love for a lost woman. They soon discovered that she was but the medium through which the universe once again exercised its peculiar ability to match those destined to be so linked." The Exile (2017)”
― Don Jacobson

“She half expected to apprehend a fellow splashing about, his boots and topcoat on the shore. How would the transparent, damp chemise draped over a manly torso reveal unseen mysteries as he rose from the water? That, though, was a girlish fantasy about the male of the species.”
― Don Jacobson, The Last Gift: An Austenesque Short Story

“Lydia looked up at the general’s careworn countenance. She placed her hand on his arm and said, “My family will be eternally grateful to you.”
― Don Jacobson, Lessers and Betters: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: A Kitty Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam Love Story

“Miss Catherine Marie Bennet, they say that love hurts. If so, I am in exquisite agony from my love for you.”
― Don Jacobson, Lessers and Betters: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: A Kitty Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam Love Story

“Well, Liddy, what say you? Glass eye or patch?”
― Don Jacobson, Lessers and Betters: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: A Kitty Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam Love Story

“The conversation, though, laid the foundation stones for what would come. All that remained was to see how quickly they would build the house.”
― Don Jacobson, Lessers and Betters: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: A Kitty Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam Love Story

“Sally Tomkins briskly toweled her until the lady’s skin glowed. Both men, imbued with healthy imaginations, focused on the fire’s dancing fingers: one mesmerized by what he imagined, the other by what he knew.”
― Don Jacobson, The Gamekeeper's Cabin: A Pride and Prejudice Holiday Short Story

“Richard Fitzwilliam, in case you have not noticed, I am quite in love with you.”
― Don Jacobson, Lessers and Betters: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: A Kitty Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam Love Story

“A hoarse cry cut her off. “Come no closer. I have the disease. Run!”
― Don Jacobson, The Longbourn Quarantine: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“bilious wave rose into her gorge. She now understood how mistakenly she had considered the accusations she had laid against Mr. Darcy’s reputation and character. She had fallen prey to the wolves of wounded pride.”
― Don Jacobson, The Longbourn Quarantine: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

“I must tell you now that you have bewitched me as no other woman has.”
― Don Jacobson, Lessers and Betters: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: A Kitty Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam Love Story

“I love you so much, Miss Bennet. I hope that we shall always be friends even after you become so happy.”
― Don Jacobson, Lessers and Betters: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: A Kitty Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam Love Story

“Miss Bennet: Just what are you about? Are you offering a drowning man a rope to shore? Do I have cause for hope?”
― Don Jacobson, Lessers and Betters: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: A Kitty Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam Love Story

“Men live off spoken words. Women read the tone behind the words like we are divining from tea leaves in a saucer!”
― Don Jacobson, Lessers and Betters: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: A Kitty Bennet/Colonel Fitzwilliam Love Story