Mary Shelley — "This, I thought, is power! Not to be strong of limb, hard of heart, ferocious, a…"

"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…"

"The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain."

"The beginning is always today."

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish."