If the Fates Allow

by Rainbow Rowell

“To be honest, sometimes I’m glad your grandma didn’t have to live through this. I think about it sometimes, that she never heard about it. She never worried about it. She never lost anyone to it. She left before she ever had to take on this burden. And I’m glad for that.”

(She didn’t need people the way other people needed people, but she still needed . . . something.)