I had to write a book analysis on The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne... and I kinda fell in love with the book. And this quote was gorgeous. So I thought I'd share. Enjoy my literary geek out. :)
"It was no wonder that they thus questioned one another's actual and bodily existence, and even doubted of their own. So strangely did they meet, in the dim wood, that it was like the first encounter, in the world beyond the grave, of two spirits who had been intimately connected in their former life, but now stood coldly shuddering, in mutual dread; as not yet familiar with their state, nor wonted to the companionship of disembodied beings. Each a ghost, and awestricken at the other ghost! They were awestricken likewise at themselves; because the crisis flung back to them their consciousness, and revealed to each heart its history and experience, as life never does, but at such breathless epochs. The soul beheld its features in the mirror of the passing moment."
Um yes. Gorgeous.
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