-none! nothing but misery! but what else could I expect? Mine burn in secret! It is good, then perhaps it would save me. But now it is all lies, all emptiness, all death!
-for someone to cry with you over your sin. your partner in sin. She hesitated, then went on, and you have an enemy, and you live with him in the same house.
-forgive me! In all things except one, I have been true to you. But I agreed to keep a secret. I did it to save your position
-a black, violent look on his face. Then he dropped down on to his knees and buried his face in his hands.
-why didn't I guess it? or perhaps I did! The horror in my heart I first saw him, and when I see him now. He has been secretly laughing at my sick and guilty heart. woman, I cannot forgive you for this!
-she fell to her knees beside him, put her arms around him, and pulled his head against her bosom, not caring that his face rested on the scarlet letter. She could not allow him to hate her.
-But I shall die if this weak, sinful, unhappy man hates me too.
-we are not the worst sinners in the world. That old man's revenge has been blacker than our sin, Hester!
-we loved one another, we told each other. Have you forgotten it?
-No, I have not forgotten!