Heart Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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

“She hadn't promised obedience—but she would give it to the right person. Scarlet”

— Kit Rocha

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

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

— Victor Hugo

“She alone was left standing, amid the accumulated riches of her mansion, while a host of men lay stricken at her feet. Like those…

— Emile Zola

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a…

— Peter De Vries

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written…

— Annie Dillard

“She was an old-fashioned woman. She had the calm of frequentation; she belonged to this house and it to her. Though she was a…

— Christina Stead

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

“It seemed to him that there was a scarlet thread running through the fabric of life, one that joined events across the years, piercing…

— Douglas Wynne