“ I come from a long line of body snatchers, probably the top-notch body snatchers in America. No make that the world. Some people might think it's gross digging up bones or corpses, but who asked them?… Minda Webber
“ Mary Shelley may well have invented science fiction. I think she did! But after that it seemed to be a boys' game. William Gibson
“ The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“ We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves. Mike Carey & Peter Gross
“ I now understand why the people chased Frankenstein up the mountain with torches. It was not because he was ugly but because they were. :) Chuck Bridges
“ Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust? Mary Shelley
“ Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Cole… Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“ Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“ Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shal… Mary Shelley
“ The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart, I saw around me nothing but a dense and frightful darkness, penetrated by no light but the… Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“ Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, because it makes Jocko squirt funny-smelling stuff out his ears. Dean Koontz
“ How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that way, and if that were true, then I'd sort of had a hand in it, in making him as smart and devious a… Brock Clarke
“ I have created something and let it loose upon the world. Whether it was my right to do so or not, I cannot say. At times I am filled with love for my creation. At others I am filled with regret and h… P.J. Parker
“ Cursed, cursed creator! Why did I live? Why, in that instant, did I not extinguish the spark of existence which you had so wantonly bestowed? Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“ The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! Kenneth Oppel
“ For there has never been a story nearly as tragic as the one of Frankenstein, except for that of Johnny Heart and his Francesca Valentine. Rae Hachton
“ My reign is not yet over... you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost to which I am impassive. You will… Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
