“Her parents would say how can you live? But what did they know about living? Willie and Sarah would live all right, just watch them. They did not need the things their parents had needed. They would be too alive for the buying-earning routine through which they were expected to stumble and excuse their lives away. They had no use for empty job-working. They would live simply in an old barn in the country, changing it over with the love of their own hands, making it belong to them and the pulsing life they would bring to it. Life was possible, really possible, for those who had the gift of loving.”
