The Scarlet Letter

"It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into
play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will
even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new
irritation of the original feeling of hostility."
~Addison Cook, Morgan Brazeau, and Shelley Blankenship~