Hannah Yoder

“She played like an angel. James felt her angel music whoosh through his hair. Poor James. He was in a predicament. The one girl to whom he’d like to speak carried the party’s entertainment in her hands. To interrupt her would be unthinkable; to wait until the party ended would mean she’d disappear into the crowd.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“The ecstasies and the wounds of love were Aphrodite’s work. Forging passions was what she was born to do. She, too, was a melder, a mistress of fire of a different sort, working in materials more powerful and resistant than carbon and iron. And what did that toil do to her?”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War

“Because I love you. You may not want to hear it, but you have to know by now.”
― Jen DeLuca, Well Matched

“What was the matter with him? The war, he decided. The war had addled his senses. The war had driven the whole world to the brink of insanity. Hasty war weddings and fatherless war babies and last-minute love. The whole cheap, flimsy spectacle of it.”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War