The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah

and you don’t stop loving a person when they’re hurt. You get stronger so they can lean on you. He needs me. Us.

“You know what walls do?” Large Marge said. “They hide what happens behind them. They trap people inside.”

Love and fear. The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.

Leni wondered if one person could ever really save another, or if it was the kind of thing you had to do for yourself.

We have plenty to eat and new clothes and when we all sit around the dinner table, we try to knit our lives together, dropped stitches and all. Maybe that’s what love is.