Preventing grep from causing premature termination of "bash -e" script

This script does not output after: #!/bin/bash -e echo "before" echo "anything" | grep e # it would if I searched for 'y' instead echo "after" exit I could solve this by removing the -e option on the shebang line, but I wish to keep it so my script stops if there is an error. I do not consider grep finding no match as an error. How may I prevent it from exiting so abruptly?