"Searing darkness paints the sky,
an ugly, lifeless, scorching lie.
A single stone before an inexorable tide -
I'll drown before I reach the other side...

A day can start so stunningly serene;
unblemished coat of deciduous green,
imbued with patches of floral delight,
as if given life for just that sight."

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“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be his world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.”

“Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.”

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein