“God gaveme the child!’ cried she. ‘He gave her, in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me. She ismy happiness!–she is my torture, none the less! Pearl keeps me her ein life! Pearl punishes me too! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a million-fold the power of retribution for my sin? Ye shall not take her! I will die first!” -104

“But still, methinks, it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain, as this poor woman Hester is, than to cover it all up in his heart.” -126

“But Arthur Dimmesdale! Were such a man once more to fall, what plea could be urged in extenuation of his crime? None; unless it avail him somewhat, the he was broken down by long and exquisite suffering; that his mind was darkened and confused by the very remorse which harrowed it; that, between fleeing as an avowed criminal, and remaining as a hypocrite, conscience might find it hard to strike the balance; that it was human to avoid the peril of death and infamy, and the inscrutable machinations of an enemy; that finally, to this poor pilgrim, on his dreary and desert path, faint sick, miserable, there appeared a glimpse of human affection and sympathy…” -189 (it’s a reallly long quote lol)

“Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create a sunshine, filing the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.” -192

Haha. I’m reading the book right now, but without a teacher guiding me through it. =/