"Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude."

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Source : Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2009). “Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus”, p.127, The Floating Press

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#Loneliness Quotes #Dark Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Save the people you love, who cares about the rest of the world? - Uncle Jake”
“A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.”
“Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.”
“To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is an unchristian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what not, it was the work of love which was his life.”
“I believe that the country weekly acts as a form of social cement in holding the community together.”
“Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states--which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.”
“Now I want to work with Octavia Spencer, because I met her and she's really funny.”

Source : "Isabelle Fuhrman: We're Obsessing Over The 'Hunger Games' Star In This Week's Girl Crush" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. March 23, 2012.
“With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.”

Source : Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.372, Penguin

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