The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

We are fashioned creatures, but half made up. - Victor Frankenstein