“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
“We sat late. We could not tear ourselves away from each other nor persuade ourselves to say the word "Farewell!" It was… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“When I was thirteen years of age...I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa. I opened it with… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“My father looked carelessly at the title page of my book, and said, "Ah! Cornelius Agrippa! My dear Victor, do not waste… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Poor William!" said he, "dear lovely child, he now sleeps with his angel mother! Who that had seen him bright and joyous… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
