"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself."
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Source: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein Or the Modern Prometheus”
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