Hannah Yoder

“It wasn’t until that last second of consciousness before sleep took me that I realized. He wasn’t groping me. His hand was placed flat on my chest. Over my heart.”
― 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

“Fake dating.’ Like it’s a thing.” “Because it is. Don’t you watch rom-coms?” He stared at her with a puzzled expression, until she cleared her throat and looked down at her knees. “Right.” God, they had nothing in common. They’d never find anything to talk about. Their ten-minute coffee breaks were going to be the most painful, awkward parts of her already painful, awkward weeks. But Anh was going to have her beautiful love story, and Olive wouldn’t have to wait for ages to use the electron microscope. That was all that mattered.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

“My pretty little pets, having a nursery-room tea party for two. The little boy, playing grown-up man for his girl. The girl he hoped would be his girl. You see why I love my work, don’t you? Why it’s not a career, it’s a calling?”
― Julie Berry, Lovely War