Linda Lael Miller Quote

What’s it like for you, Velvet? Being married, I mean? Velvet permitted herself a dreamy sigh and gazed into the bonfire as though she saw some wonderful pageant being played out there. It gets better every day, she answered after a long time. Hank and me, we work together, side by side, all day through. And come night, we—well, we’re together then, too. Lily was touched, and a little amused, to see that her worldly friend was blushing. Do you think that’s enough, though—liking what a man does to you in bed? Velvet shook her head. Wouldn’t be enough by itself, I reckon. It’s if you can laugh and talk together, and if you know you’d stand by him no matter what, and he’d stand by you. Glancing toward Caleb, Lily let out a long sigh. I just don’t know. That man is so stubborn, sometimes I think I’d better just give in and marry him. Why don’t you? He’d own me then, just like he owns his horse and his land and his shotgun. Velvet smiled. I don’t mind Hank ownin’ me, she said. That’s silly, Velvet, Lily protested. You’re a human being, not a saddle blanket or a wheelbarrow. Nobody can own you. Can if you let ’em, Velvet insisted. Lily