Mary Shelley — "I have no power to give you happiness, but I could make you an object and a caus…"

"I was an outcast in the world."

"Nothing is more painful to the human mind than after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul b…"

"How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!"

"The beginning is always today."

"What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and dea…"