Frankenstein

by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.

Ouch—I felt that in my soul, Mary

In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

But not all scientific discoveries made are worth discovery and wonder...

A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity.

Life lessons with Mary Shelley

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

Human nature is not something so grave, it changes constantly. However—the accidents of life' are irreversible, like Victor's creation... we should think before we act.

but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.

Oh, Victor. This part always gets to me

it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.

Hello Dante <3

Nothing is more painful to the human mind, than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows, and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

There is nothing more true than this

I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly,

Mary Shelley speaks to my soul in the most painful way

but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood.

This book has some of the most random gorgeous passages

Victor, when falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

Love <3