The Scarlet Letter

"There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him."

"Keep, therefore, the secret, as thou valuest thy life!"

"Is he continually watching us?"

"The past is gone! Wherefore should we not leave it behind us, and start anew?"

"Thou hast escaped me!"

"What we did had a consecration of its own."

"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"

"There is a fatality, a feeling as if the doom were sealed."

"What thou art in relation to me"

"Forgive me I ask too much"

"Yet it is our fate to meet"

"We have wronged each other deeply"

"Thou canst not take her from me"

"I will not speak what thou dost know"

"Let the black flower blossom as it may"

"What has he to do with all this weary world"

"Better to die at once"

"We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world"

"Madness would be mercy"

"Thou hast cast me into the pit of my own thoughts"

"I pity you for the hunger and thirst of your heart"

"Come away or yonder old Black Man will catch you"

"Why dost thou smile so at me"

"I am a man of mind"

"Thou hast left me too long in anguish"

"What is this but a fitting retribution"

"I am not to be bought"

"Thou wilt not reveal his name"

"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest"

"Thou seest I am here.—Didst thou not expect me?"