The Scarlet Letter

"Thou wast kind to me!—so very kind!"

"I am not! I am not!"

"Canst thou yet forgive me?"

"The world's judgment is not the voice of God."

"Stand again upon the scaffold with me!"

"Pearl is a creature born of sin—yet, she is my child!"

"What have I to do with him?—I am no longer his!"

"I love the child deeply and fervently!"

"Thou seest what I am and what I must suffer."

"That old man!—he has done me wrong from the very start."

"Forgive me for thy love's sake!"

"Shame, Despair, Solitude! Yet I am not all alone."

"Better to die than to live a lie."

"Thy will be done!"

"Thy love has made me a slave, forever!"

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

"Thou shalt forgive me!"

"Thou and I, Hester, never knew what prayer is."

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

"Be true! Be true! Be true!"

"He hath changed, and knows not that he hath changed."

"Behold, I stand here willing to suffer without complaint."

"I am powerless to deny thee what thou askest."

"Forgive me, Hester, if thy sin has taught me something."

"Show me thy strength and it shall be thy weakness."

"What if thou shouldst put the question to the minister?"

"Thou and I never, never!"

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

"This woman has been kind to me."

"I can bear his weight no longer."