Brenna Jacobs > Quotes

“It sounded crazy to non-writers, but if she approached a blank page with total honesty, what poured out was often the truth.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“She wanted to write for the reader she had rediscovered in herself when she’d disappeared into the pages of the fantasy book she’d dared to open that morning.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Look

“And now Emma Maxwell is lighting the literary world on fire. I’m so proud of you. Thousands of people are falling in love with Victoria, the same way I did with you.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“For so long now, her reading had been all about who created the most morally ambiguous, emotionally complex characters and dilemmas. They were rarely stories about people getting the good things they deserved, only the bad ones.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“restoring it with patience and love, all with the help of a good man beside her, the man who had seen through her defenses to who she really was and loved her anyway.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“A laugh-sob escaped her. Aidan saw her. He understood her.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“I’ve loved you. You mesmerize me. You fill me up in ways I’ve never imagined possible. You inspire me. You make me laugh. You make me want to be better at everything I do.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Dreaming of the Next Door Doc

“And the books that people related to were the ones they crowded around here, books that guaranteed a happy ending so long as the reader was ready to stick it out through all the obstacles the characters faced to earn that ending.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“I don’t have your gift with words, but I do understand stories. This one just needed more Emma in it. Everything is better that way.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“Her suitcase was on her bed and filling fast, almost like her hands were thinking for her, telling her what her brain and heart really wanted: an escape.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“I never try to like a book. I figure it’s the book’s job to get me to like it, and if I don’t, I leave it and move on.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“She didn’t know, and right now, she didn’t care. She would care again. Eventually.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“But fiction could be true in its feelings, in its themes, in its relatability.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“But writing is such a part of who you are, and I want you to have space here if you need it too. Maybe sometimes we could work here? I promise to keep the coffee hot and my keyboard quiet.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“It wasn’t fair to her for him to be thinking of someone else while kissing her.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Gambling on a Gentleman

“He’d written a final scene where Victoria was living in her grandmother’s old farmhouse, restoring it with patience and love, all with the help of a good man beside her, the man who had seen through her defenses to who she really was and loved her anyway.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word

“I’ve always wanted a co-author. I found us a workspace. Come find me on my deck.’ So. I’m here about the workspace.”
― Brenna Jacobs, Just One Word