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Mary Shelley Quotes
AKA: | Mary Shelley |
Birthday: | August 30, 1797 |
Death: | February 1, 1851 |
Manner of Death: | Natural Causes |
Nationality: | Kingdom Of Great Britain |
Occupations: | Essayist, Science Fiction Writer, Playwright, Travel Writer, Novelist |
Spouse: | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Total quotes: 43

Mary Shelley
BirthnameAKA: Mary Shelley
Birthday: August 30, 1797
Death: February 1, 1851
Manner of Death: Natural Causes
Nationality: Kingdom Of Great Britain
Occupations: Essayist, Science Fiction Writer, Playwright, Travel Writer, Novelist
Spouse: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Total quotes: 43
“We will be monsters, alone in the world, but we will have each other”
Tagged:
True Love, Stay By Each Other's Side
“He was soon born away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.”
Tagged:
Famous Last Lines, Darkness
“And now I began to live. All around me was changed from a dull uniformity to the brightest scene of joy and delight.”
Tagged:
Joy
“It was now the end of May; the woods were clothed in their freshest verdure, and the sweet smell of the new mown grass was in the fields.”
Tagged:
Spring
“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.”
Tagged:
monsters, Attachment
“But my pleasures arose from the contemplation of nature alone, I had no companion: my warm affections finding no return from any other human heart were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.”
Tagged:
Nature
“It is only four o'clock; but it is winter and the sun has already set: there are no clouds in the clear, frosty sky to reflect its slant beams, but the air itself is tinged with a slight roseate colour which is again reflected on the snow that covers the ground.”
Tagged:
Winter
“But my father; my beloved and most wretched father? Would he die? Would he never overcome the fierce passion that now held pitiless dominion over him? Might he not many, many years hence, when age had quenched the burning sensations that he now experienced, might he not then be again a father to me?”
Tagged:
father
“O, hours of intense delight! Short as ye were ye are made as long to me as a whole life when looked back upon through the mist of grief that rose immediately after as if to shut ye from my view. Alas! ye were the last of happiness that I ever enjoyed; a few, a very few weeks and all was destroyed.”
Tagged:
Happiness
“She was a singular being, and, like me, inherited much of the peculiar disposition of our father. Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark, but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance, and to feel that the soul which was their soul, comprehended an universe of thought in its ken.”
Tagged:
Eyes
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