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"You won't love a word, a sentence, but you will love a person"
Crawford 2022-04-22 07:01:33
Still a fireworks-like Dupree, in the waves, she still regards her beloved as her belief. Wounded husband tells her "can't love" anymore, which will make life worse for him. So she forced herself to tell her husband over and over again what it felt like, and that feeling was still there; she felt that as long as the husband believed, he would exist. She went to church all day long to confess her confession to God and her husband. She said her only weakness was faith. So when she was expelled from the church and forced to leave the ward, death followed... She once said to a roomful of believers, "You can't love a word, a sentence, but you can love a person." It's really amazing to think about this feeling.
Extended Reading
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[first lines]
Bess McNeill: His name is Jan.
The Minister: I do not know him.
Bess McNeill: [coyly] He's from the lake.
The Minister: You know we do not favor matrimony with outsiders.
An Elder: Can you even tell us what matrimony is?
Bess McNeill: It's when two people are joined in God.
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Jan Nyman: Love is a mighty power, isn't it?