Scarlet Letter Love Quotes

#1. I'm tired of doing what I don't want to do to live the way I don't want to live.

Edward Abbey

#2. Catharsis isn't a wound being excavated from childhood.

Sarah Ruhl

#3. Destroy! destroy! destroy! hums the under-consciousness. Love and produce! Love and produce! cackles the upper consciousness. And the world hears only the Love-and- produce cackle. Refuses to hear the hum of destruction under- neath. Until such time as it will have to hear.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. Harmony would only come with destruction.

Shannon A. Thompson

#5. Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that he would bring dessert home. His instruction to his partner in crime is an entire moral manifesto in six little words: 'Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

Sarah Vowell

#6. I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.

A.S. Byatt