The Scarlet Letter

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you!"

"Thy Heavenly Father sends thee love."

"The scarlet letter burning on my breast!"

"Comfort, I pray thee, with thine own phantom!"

"Let the black flower blossom as it may!"

"The curse of this household shall pass down generations."

"I have her! Behold the scarlet letter."

"Tell me,—shall we not spend our immortal lives together?"

"My child! My happiness! What should I say?"

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

"Whosoever thou art, I forgive thee."

"I am not of adamant!"

"Thou hast kept the secret of my parentage."

"Canst thou forgive me?"

"Pity me!—I am not evil!"

"Better to die than to live in shame."

"Come, therefore, and let us hence!"

"Would that I could here, and say amen!"

"My sin and my shame—let the multitude know it!"

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

"Thou art not evil!—yet Pearl is none the less here."

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

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"Every moment, while thou hidest thyself, is a lie!"

"She repaid my love with the blackest treachery."

"The truth is, I have nothing of the saint about me."

"Hadst thou sought vengeance, it had not been better for thy soul."

"I pity thee, for the good that has been wasted in thy nature!"

"Out of those gloomy depths, Pearl might lure thee forth."