"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear"
Power
"I shall pursue my creator to the uttermost parts of the earth"
Perseverance
"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful"
Courage
"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend"
Philosophy
"Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?"
"I have endured incalculable fatigue and cold and hunger"
Perseverance
"The human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union"
Relationships
"You are my creator; I am your creature"
Relationships
"I am malicious because I am miserable."
Philosophy
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
Life
"I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me."
"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
Power
"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe."
"Alas! he does not know the fatal secret that operation was the immediate cause of my being."
Truth
"I desired the company of a man who could sympathise with me, whose eyes would reply to mine."
"I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames."
Death
"My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor; and they are made the bars of my prison."
Solitude
"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend."
"How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me, and I shall again be virtuous."
Justice
"Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood, nor ever known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat!"
"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."
Freedom
"You have denied me the small sociality which is in the power of those of your kind to grant; therefore I claim of you a companion."
"I am satisfied: misery has been my portion; let me now taste the fruits of my labours, and repose."
"When I was unseen and unknown, every human being in the shape which I wore was repelled from me. I was shut out from intercourse with mankind."
"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be rendered all the dearer to one another."
"I have good dispositions; my life has been hitherto harmless and in some respects beneficial; but a circumstance has occurred which has rendered the last three months the most miserable of my life."
"I shall slake the thirst which burns within me; but I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly."
Death
"I have you; I have love in me, and I will not be denied."
"It is not pity that you feel; you did not compassionate my sufferings, therefore I now compassionate myself."
"I have crossed oceans of time to find you."