I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

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

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. 'Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? God, in pity, made man beautiful and alluring, after his own image; but my form is a filthy type of yours, more horrid even from the very resemlance. Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred.' - Frankenstein

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.