“Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“There is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, interwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Nothing is so precious to a woman's heart as the glory and excellence of him she loves” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires. They were for ever ardent and craving; still I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“For the first time she knew and loved the Spirit of good and beauty, an affinity to which affords the greatest bliss… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“the haughty princess of Austria, who became, as queen of England, the head of fashion, looked with harsh eyes on his defects,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Romanticism valued individual voices, including those of women and "common people." They tended to idealize the pastoral lives of farmers, shepherds, milkmaids,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate; but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You may hate, but beware! Your hours will… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“When tenderness softened her heart, and the sublime feeling of universal love penetrated her, she found no voice that replied so well… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“It is true that I have thought more and that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“She wondered at her previous blindness; it was as if she had closed her eyelids, and then fancied it was night. No… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“She died calmly; and her countenance expressed affection even in death. I need not describe the feelings of those who dearest ties… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Oh, come to me in dreams, my love! I will not ask a dearer bliss; Come with the starry beams, my love,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I agree with you," replied the stranger; "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
“For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world… — Mary Shelley Copy Share
