You have done well so far, my magnificent creature. Soon you will be with me.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!

The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

You’re a Frankenstein!”
“Don’t confuse the monster with the creator.