The sorrow that lay cold in her mother's heart... converted it into a tomb.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

Love, whether newly born or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world.

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.

If I lost the ability to speak, what would my life be saying?

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

In art there are two principal schools between which each aspirant has to choose--one distinguished by its close adherence to nature, and the other by its strenuous efforts to get above it.

Ultimate satisfaction is found not in making much of ourselves but in making much of God

Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out.

Fashion is so subjective, and I think it should be playful.

There are opportunities around. It takes time and motivation to take them.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there