-the tree were tall and close together, and the path through them was dark and narrow under a grey sky
-and never will, my child, I hope, now run away and catch the sunshine
-I can put out my hand and hold some of it
-and he has his hand over his heart!
-none! nothing but misery! but what else could I expect? Mine burns in secret. Whom I could talk to openly each day, then perhaps it would save me. But now it is all lies, all emptiness, all death!
-you have the friend that you wish for; someone to cry with you over your sin. You have me, your partner in sin. She hesitated, then went on, And you have an enemy, and you live with him in the same house.
-why didn't I guess it? or perhaps I did! the horror in my heart when I first saw him, and when I see him now. He has been secretly laughting at my sick and guilty heart. Woman, I cannot forgive you for this!
-put her arms around him, and pulled his head against her bosom, not caring that his face rested in the scarlet letter. She could not allow him to hate her
-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 forgotten it?
-No, I have not foegotten!
-holding each other's hand. Around them, the tree were dark, and the branches moved noisily in the wild.
-He has a secret nature, and I think he will, But he will doubtless find other ways to take his revenge.
-How can I live in the same house, breathing the same air with this deadly enemy? think for me, Hester! you are strong! tell me what to do!
-advise me what to do
-it the world so small, then? Is there nothing beyond this little town? walk a few miles from here, and the yellow leaves will show no sign of a white man's feet. There you can be free! A short journey will take you from a world where you have been miserable, to one where you may still be happy! Then there is the sea. It brought you here, it can take you back again. you'll be beyoud Roger chillingworth there.
-I must do what I can for the other human souls in my care.
-Begin again. There is happiness to be enjoyed, there is good be done. Change this false life for a true one! Teach, write! Work among the Indians! Do anything, except lie down and die! Why wait another day in this place? Go now!
-I am not strong enough, nor brave enough, to go out intonthe woide, strange, difficult word alone.
Sadly, hopelessly, he repeated the word.
-Alone, Hester!
-you shall not go alone, her voice a deep whisper