Mike wrapped his arm tighter around Esme.

"No one should. But some of us are. Because terrible things do happen to people who never deserve it. And those terrible things don't happen to those who do. My lantern, I guess, is trying to let go of the feeling that my Grandma would have been better off without me. Because, I've asked her, and every time she tells me she doesn't regret me or loving me in the slightest. And if we don't believe them, we're hurting them. And I don't want to hurt her anymore than she's already been hurt."