Kianna

“I’ll just say you had a family emergency.” Holden winked. “Perhaps future-family emergency, how does that sound?”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“She would have loved to have someone in her life, but she doubted it was in store for her. Maybe she was unlovable. Maybe spending so many years alone had warped her in some fundamental way and that was why she seemed to be unable to develop a true romantic connection, or even the type of attraction she often heard others talk about. In the end, it didn’t really matter. Grad school and dating went poorly together, anyway, which was probably why Dr. Adam Carlsen, MacArthur Fellow and genius extraordinaire, was standing here at thirtysomething years old, asking Olive what people did on dates. Academics, ladies and gentlemen.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“She sighed. “You know, when I have no more friends and everyone hates me because of this fake-dating thing, I’ll be super lonely and you are going to have to hang out with me every day. I’ll annoy you all the time. Is it really worth being mean to every grad in the program?” “Absolutely.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“I must say, the line between excellent career choice and critical life screwup is getting a bit blury.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis