Quotes & Sayings About Individual Vs Society In The Scarlet Letter

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage. — Lynn Johnston

That boy shakes me upside down and inside out. — Alecia Whitaker

The dull pray; the geniuses are light mockers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shipmates might depend. That word: teamwork. It — Marcus Luttrell

She wanted to explain everything to him - how certain notes of the Moonlight Sonata shredded her heart like wind inside a paper bag; how her soul felt as endless and deep as the sea churning on their left; how the sight of the young Muslim couple filled her with an emotion that was equal parts joy and sadness; and above all, how she wanted a marriage that was different from the dead sea of marriages she saw all around her, how she wanted something finer, deeper, a marriage made out of silk and velvet instead of coarse cloth, a marriage made of clouds and stardust and red earth and ocean foam and moonlight and sonatas and books and art galleries and passion and kindness and sorrow and ecstasy and of fingers touching from under a burqua. — Thrity Umrigar

Elvis, heal me, save me. Elvis, make me be born again in the perfect Elvis light. — Mojo Nixon

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare. — Marco Rubio

I could see the solace she discovered. Here she could sing and dance and shout for glory among people who didn't care which pew she sat in, whose people she belonged to, and whether she was baking a roast for the church homecoming. They were people who yearned for one thing, and one thing only: a pure relationship with that part of the Trinity so often neglected in organized worship. The Holy Spirit. Slouching — Sibella Giorello

The little engine roared and then stopped. Adam sat back for a moment, limp but proud, before he got out.
The postmaster looked out between the bars of his golden grill. "I see you've got one of the damn things," he said.
"Have to keep up with the times," said Adam.
"I predict there'll come a time when you can't find a horse, Mr. Trask."
"Maybe so."
They'll change the face of the countryside. They get their clatter into everything," the postmaster went on. — John Steinbeck

It takes a special person to see darkness inside of someone and not condemn them. — Shannon Messenger

That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up. — Holly Black

Nothing is more obstructive to the investigation of the truth than prior commitments to partial truths. — Jacobus Arminius