Mary's Monster Quotes

“Father didn't expect us to sew,
or play with dolls like other girls.
Instead he gave us the books our mother had written,
and encouraged us to read.
He taught us independence is admirable,
and imagination indispensable.”
― Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

“Home is a place in the mind where thoughts grow rich enough to become stories, breaking the silence that exists between souls.”
― Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

“WANT
I want to hold Shelley
with the force of an eagle
taming the wind within its wings.

I want to grasp him unfailingly,
like a gentle moth
dancing with flame.

I want to have strength enough
to beat off the beasts
that dwell within his heart.

I want to believe
in impossible promises
and shift the world
so they can be kept.

I want to be more
than a girl
selling books
in a bankrupt shop.”
― Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

“Home is not an address
with fine curtains
and fancy furnishings.
Home is a place in the mind where thoughts
grow rich enough to become stories,
breaking the silence that exists between souls.”
― Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

“I AM SEVENTEEN

Already
I am daughter to a ghost
and mother to bones.”
― Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

“Science gives us the ability to pull back the skin of life
and reveal the truth of things. It allows us to understand
the mysteries of mountain-making and falling stars.

But knowledge isn't meant to be held as a weapon
in a battle to defy our fates and manipulate life over death.

Evil lodges too easily in men's hearts.
What will happen if they assume the power to create life?”
― Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

“They will be scorned and considered loathsome,
because people reject those who don’t fit
their vision of a perfect ideal.”
― Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

“I stand at the entrance of our door,
where the room seems dark
and the bookshelves bend,
more with the weight of disappointment
than with books.”
― Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein

“I AM SEVENTEEN
Already I am daughter to a ghost and mother to bones.”
― Lita Judge, Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein