Mary Shelley

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through."

"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."

"How much more affection and beauty there is in the world if we only choose to recognize it."

"Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition."

"You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings."

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"Some people call this madness, but I have embraced it."

"The prospects of the future are even more brilliant than the past."

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine."

"A human may be wretched, but he is never despicable."

"Formed by nature, but hardened and rendered convict by circumstance."

"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge."

"How strange it is that we call this planet ours, yet we share it with millions of other creatures."

"The companion of our childhood is always the friend of our heart."

"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another."

"I have described myself as best as I am able, but since I am always learning and always changing, I hope I have not been too absolute in my own estimate."

"Seek for some means that will afford you peace."

"The world to me was a secret which I desired to divine."

"Science is a progressive endeavor."

"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand."

"How wonderful and stupendous you might make man appear to be!"

"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend."

"Seek some means that will afford you peace and happiness."

"The mind is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."

"We are all monsters, but the real monsters are those who refuse to see others as human."

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods."

"My imagination was too much encouraged."