Mary Shelley — "I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and k…"

"We are not formed for enjoyment; and, however we may be attuned to the reception of pleasurable emotion, disappointment is the never-failing pilot of our life's bark, and ruthlessly carries us on to t…"

"I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel."

"I have no power to give you happiness, but I could make you an object and a cause of misery."

"Do you mark my words; I have learned the language of despair: I have it all by heart, for I am Despair; and a strange being am I, joyous, triumphant Despair…."

"I was born with a love for the marvellous."