" Sorry if I seem a bit blasé about it. My sister says I’m not allowing myself to grieve, but the reality is that there’s nothing I can do about it, and I’ve never been the type to fixate on the things I can’t change in the world. She’s a lawyer, so that concept is entirely foreign to her. In her opinion, everything is negotiable, even terminal cancer.” “Is it painful?” Darger asked, not thinking. Her mouth was running on auto-pilot while her brain wrestled with the idea of Fowles being at death’s door. "

― L.T. Vargus , Five Days Post Mortem (Violet Darger, #5)