Quotes from Mary Shelly

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate.