Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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

"Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."- Frankenstein p115"

"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone."