Mary Shelley — "I am a solitary being, and I have ever been so."

"I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."

"How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowl…"

"I was an outcast in the world."

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"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."