“I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel…”