The Scarlet Letter

"I shall endure it as I may."

"Thou madest me!"

"Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom!"

"The infant at thy breast is also mine!"

"Thou knowest not what a relief it is, after the toil and trouble of my life."

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

"The past is gone."

"Let the black flower blossom as it may!"

"Of penance, I have had enough!"

"Thou hast escaped me!"

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

"Evil has been with me from my youth."

"Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home."

"Thou and I, Hester,—what have we to do with all these iron men, and their opinions?"

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

"Sin is left alone."

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

"Physician, thou hast charge of my physical well-being."

"I will not speak!—I will not reveal!"

"In God's eyes, we may be pure; but in man's we are forever stained."

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

"We are not, Hester, of the world's people."

"Thou speakest as if this evil were a thing apart from thyself!"

"Thy Heavenly Father sendeth thee to me."

"Let the black flower blossom as it may!"

"Thou knowest what this mean, and what I am!"

"I am transformed! I am not the man!"

"Canst thou forgive me too? Wilt thou forgive?"

"And be the torture what it may, we have skilled each other all the while."

"What art thou to me? I am bound to thee by ties far too powerful for thy breaking!"