Quote by Hester Prynne
"The past is gone! Wherefore should we not leave it behind us, and start anew?"
More from Hester Prynne
"Thou and I are not of the world; let us therefore leave the matter as it then stood."
"What we did had a consecration of its own."
"I am not, nor have ever been, otherwise than what you see me."
"Thou hast just pleaded passionately for thy child; canst thou not do the same for the father of thy child?"