Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open . . .

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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