Melanie Jacobson > Quotes

“You're free to make your own choices, and you're free to pay the consequences.”
― Melanie Jacobson

“Here's an exclusive, Tanner Graham. I love you like crazy."
"My favorite kind of story," he said. "I already know how this one ends."
"How?"
"Happily ever after.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Not My Type: A Single Girl's Guide to Doing It All Wrong

“No," he said, leaning back to take my face in his hands and dropping another soft kiss on my lips. "All I've wanted since you limped out of my life the first day I met you was to have you back in it. Does that scare you?"

I stood on tiptoe to return his kiss. "Not even a little bit. Thank you, Tanner Graham."

He smiled. "For what?"
"For being patient. I'll make it worth it."
"You've always been worth it," he said punctuating his opinion with another kiss...

Tanner smiled down at me, tightening his hold. "Thank you."
"For what?"
"for being you. I love you, Pepper.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Not My Type: A Single Girl's Guide to Doing It All Wrong

“But the change was in the tiny fraction of space that Tanner closed between us, when his mouth touched mine and the gentle brush of his lips drew a sigh from me I didn't know I was holding. He smiled against my mouth and then kissed me again.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Not My Type: A Single Girl's Guide to Doing It All Wrong

“If you measure yourself against perfection, you're always going to come up short.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss Me Now

“We all have to get through the learning curve. Everybody hates it, but you'll do fine.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss Me Now

“Do you like K-pop?”
― Melanie Jacobson, The Fall Back Plan

“But then one day, they cook bacon and say you can have a piece if you tell them all your secrets.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Betting on the Boy Next Door

“If that’s how forever starts, then I’m glad it never ends.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Dropping the Ball

“Jay’s energy is like these late June days, warm and sunny. It’s the kind of energy you feel when you’re relaxed but you know an adventure is waiting, like walking down a quiet road knowing something cool is around the bend. Maybe a patch of wild blackberries or a swimming hole, but something good and happy.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Signed, Sealed, and Smitten

“I open my door and crook my head for her to follow. “I understand why you thought you couldn’t tell me you were trying to win the bet, but I hate being moved around like a pawn.”

“Some of the greatest chess matches ever played were won by pawns.” Ruby catches sight of my face and adds, “Not the point. Right.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Betting on the Brainiac

“Is that a microscope?” I ask, looking at the array of glass slides, tweezers, and eye droppers next to what is definitely a microscope. “Please tell me you’re not playing doctor in the living room.”

“We’re playing scientist, dummy,” Joey says.

“I’m showing him what different stuff looks like under magnification.”

“I looked at a dust mite,” Joey says. “I am not okay.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Betting on the Brainiac

“I’ve developed an addiction to her.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Signed, Sealed, and Smitten

“Kiss the girl,” the pastor’s wife cried, and that won several cheers. “A good one!”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss the Girl

“Right. “I don’t have a great poker face, do I?”
“Your face comes with subtitles. I like it.”
“You like my subtitles?”
“I like that you’re transparent.” I grimace, and he tries to correct himself. “Transparent in the good way, like …” He pauses, then snaps his fingers. “Like forthcoming. Forthright? Pick a synonym you like, and that’s what I meant.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Signed, Sealed, and Smitten

“There was no twenty-six-year-old on the planet who would not fall under the spell of a foot rub from a hot guy who was good with kids.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss the Girl

“There was no point in lying to myself about how much I liked Grace when every nerve-ending in my body lit up when she was around. But for the sake of our friendship, I kept it to myself,”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss the Girl

“And I smiled again because I finally had something to look forward to.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss the Girl

“She had to know she could trust me by now, didn’t she?”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss the Girl

“He’s from a huge family—six siblings—so when she fell in love with him, at least a quarter of that was based on him coming from the kind of family she wanted. She clung to that security.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss the Girl

“It was a great idea,” I said and leaned across the gearshift to plant a kiss on his cheek. “That is possibly the dumbest, sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me.”
Another shrug. “You’re worth it,” he said.”
― Melanie Jacobson, The List: Finding Love Was the Last Thing on Her List

“For what it’s worth,” he said as he stepped through it, “I wouldn’t want to fake date anyone else but you.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss the Girl

“Tempting, even after the garden thing. But I’m not dating right now.” He gave me an easy smile. “My loss.” But I had a sneaking suspicion it might be mine.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss the Girl

“I want to do all the homeowner things. I jump down from the bed and go in search of the thermostat so I can change it, no matter what it’s on already. I find it and bump it down a degree just because. I close all the blinds and strip naked, then walk back through every room of the house. These are the things you get to do in your own house that you can’t do with roommates. Or at least, you can’t if you want to stay on good terms.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Betting on the Boy Next Door

“We leave here as experts in nothing, but that won’t matter if we stay students of everything.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Dropping the Ball

“What else should I know about the library?” I ask. Focus on business, Ms. Hopper.
“Only that it has a secret passage.”
I widen my eyes. “No.”
His smile gets bigger. “Oh, yes.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Signed, Sealed, and Smitten

“Why do you keep dancing away from this?” “I’m not dancing away from anything,” I said. Tap, tap, tap and kick-ball-change.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Second Chances

“I hid a smile at the easy way Grace answered her. Paige looked utterly charmed. I got it. Grace did that to me too.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss the Girl

“He started laughing. “We double-dated. That’s why you look familiar.” I blinked a couple times. “Seriously?”
― Melanie Jacobson, Kiss the Girl

“She’s enough,” I say, studying the relaxed curve of her shoulder. “In that moment. Probably in all her moments. But you can only rest like that and belong to everything around you if you know you’re enough.”
― Melanie Jacobson, Dropping the Ball