"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions
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