Mary Shelley — "The event of my imagination, now in the wildest play, suggested the following tr…"

"What does it avail that I am in the midst of a garden, if the flowers bloom not for me?"

"The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality."

"It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with."

"When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less than on the failure of my hopes, I was filled with a bitter anguish."

"The human mind is a wonderful thing; it can create and destroy, it can love and hate."