Daniel

“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

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

“It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“...such loss of faith is ever one of the saddest results of sin.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter