Quote#Love
My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and…
Quote byMary Shelley · 1797–1851
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Frankenstein (1818), The monster to Robert Walton in Ch. 24.
English (original)
My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.
— Mary Shelley
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