Having just read Frankenstein, I thought I’d place a couple of my favorite lines here.
“if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear”
“I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? … Shall I respect man when he condemns me?”
“I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this? Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me?”
-The Creation, who is by far my favorite character of the book