Scarlet Letter Quote by Kate Atkinson Download Open image ““Could you be an old maid if you had worn the scarlet letter?”” — Kate Atkinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Scarlet Letter
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“Charlotte blanched. 'I'm only a maid, miss.' 'A maid is still a woman.” — Olivia Newport Copy Share Image
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“Words are wind, and men will lie to get their way, as any maid could tell you.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
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“And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're smart or that you… — Hiro Fujiwara Copy Share Image
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“Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Sweet sixteen," Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. "Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you." Ursula still harbored the feeling that some… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“He had made a vow, a private promise to the world in the long dark watches of the night, that if he did survive… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“When she was little they had lived in an old farmhouse too, in the middle of nothing of but landscape.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Do you keep time in the same place that you save it? If so why is it always so difficult to find? It must… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“What did science ever do for the world, apart from make better ways of killing people?” Sylvie said.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
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If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“The vulgar, who, in those dreary old times, were always contributing a grotesque horror to what interested their imaginations, had a story about the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Twitter is sort of version of labeling, except with 140 characters instead of a labelmaker. It's the way of calling things out for what… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“They didn’t put a scarlet letter on her chest, but they didn’t need to. That’s what the Internet is for.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“In high school, you read The Scarlet Letter, and it occurs to you that this is what the Internet is like.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Could they be other than the insidious whispers of the bad angel, who would fain have persuaded the struggling woman, as yet only half… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me. — Toni Braxton Copy Share Image
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~Words hurt and words cause pain. words coat your heart in a vast lonely stain such words have made me wonder inside am I… — Angel_eyes Copy Share Image
