“I wrote then—but in a most commonplace style. It was beneath the trees of the grounds belonging to our house, or on the bleak sides of the woodless mountains near, that my true compositions were born and fostered.”

Linking the development of her imagination with solitude and landscape. · Introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein

• Creativity
• Nature
• Writing

“There is no pleasure equal to that which comes from having overcome a difficulty by one's own exertions.”

Finding satisfaction in perseverance and self-reliance. · Journal

• Achievement
• Difficulty
• Effort

“Nothing is so painful as the loss of one whom we have loved, yet nothing proves so completely that we have loved.”

Considering grief as inseparable from the depth of attachment. · Journal

• Grief
• Loss
• Love