The Scarlet Letter

"We are not, Hester, of the order that proclaims itself."

"O Hester, what a thought is that which thou hast awakened in me!"

"Let the black flower blossom as it may!"

"Out of those entangled meshes, I am come to a kind of peace."

"Behold, I am a monster born of sin!"

"Thou canst not take the token away. It is too deeply branded."

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

"Dost thou see yonder child?"

"I am not to be within shout of the scaffold!"

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

"Thy mother is yonder woman with the scarlet letter."

"Better to die than to live as I have lived!"

"Thou hast kept the secret too well!"

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

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

"Dost thou mock me now?"

"Let the black flower blossom as it may!"

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

"Do I feel joy again?—warm, real, individual existence again?"

"Come, Hester, let us fleece the world and live!"

"We are not, Hester, of the order of Providence."

"Thou art not evil!—I am!"

"A woman never overcomes these problems by her own strength."

"I stand upon the scaffold of infamy!—yet better to stand here, than in thy unconfessed guilt!"

"He has made me!"

"Revenge is not so sweet, that I have much to boast of"

"Wilt thou yet forgive me?"

"I may have wronged him—I may have done him worse wrong than he ever did me!"

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

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