-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!
-holding each other's hand. and the branches moved noisily in the wind.
-but he will doubtless find other ways to take his revenge.
-breathing the same air with his deadly enemy? you are strong! Tell me what to do!
-if you are strong enough to take advantage of it.
-Be strong for me! Advise me what to do.
-is 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 tou can be free! A short journey will take you from a world where yu have been miserable, to one where you may still be happy! Then there is the sea. It brought you here, and if you choose, it can take you back again. Perhaps to London. You'll be beyond Roger Chillingworth there.
-I must do what I can for the other human souls in my care.
-with passion in her voice. Begin again. There is happiness to be enjoyed, there is good to 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!
-nor brave enough, to go out into the wide, strange, difficult world alone.
-Sadly, hopelessly, he repeated the word.
-Alone, Hester!
-you shall not go alone,