Daniel

“To the untrue man, the whole universe is false--it is impalpable--it shrinks to nothing within his grasp.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter