Hester Prynne Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
““Could they be other than the insidious whispers of the bad angel, who would fain have persuaded the struggling woman, as yet only half his victim, that the outward guise of purity was but a lie, and that, if truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom besides Hester Prynne’s? Or,””
![“[...] no one had lived up to the roles they acted out in public. They wasted their years trying to live the lies that they had created for themselves. Only in private could they really be the demons, hypocrites and sinners they really were, and woe betide anyone who caught them at their game…” quote by Marilyn Manson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de2/marilyn-manson-565_lie-is-a-lie_no-one-had-lived-up-to-the-roles-they-ac_1810863.jpg)
