If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or — and the outward semblance is the same — crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.


The Scarlet Letter (1850)

Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or — and the outward semblance is the...

If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or — and the outward semblance is the...

If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or — and the outward semblance is the...

If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or — and the outward semblance is the...