“ I am malicious because I am miserable ” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness. ” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“ Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear. ” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley