Mary Shelley — "I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I again sh…"

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

"I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body."

"When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? I cannot describe to you the agony that these re…"

"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."

"I am a creature of fine sensations, but I am also a creature of terrible imperfections."