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Harriet Shelley: Evidently you are a stranger to scandal, Miss Godwin. Did you know I ran away with Percy when I was a girl? Idealism and love give us courage. But they do not prepare you for the sacrifice required to love a man like Percy.
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Mary Shelley: I dreamed of her last night; that we lit a fire in the fireplace, and the fire's warmth nursed her back to life/
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Mary Shelley: I no longer see the world and it's works as they before appeared to me. But now, misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters, thirsting for each other's blood. And I, a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others, and intolerable to myself.
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Lord Byron: Always see.
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Lord Byron: Safe travels, Mary. I look forward to reading your work some day.
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Mr. Godwin: Rid yourself of the thoughts and words of other people, Mary. Find your own voice.
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Polidori: We have created monsters, Mary. Let's not let them devour us.
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Mary Shelley: Next time you run off to read ghost stories, take me with you!
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Claire Clairmont: Did you finish it?
Mary Shelley: Yes. It chilled me to the bone!
Claire Clairmont: It's good to enjoy a ghost story now and then.
Mary Shelley: We both know this is no ghost story. I've never read such a perfect encapsulation of what it feels to be abandoned. I seethed with your monster's rage. I lusted for his revenge. Because it was my own.
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Claire Clairmont: I wonder, how many souls will sympathize with your creature's torments?
Claire Clairmont: More than should, I expect.
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