I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit of my nature, should be completed.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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  2. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. - Elie Wiesel

  3. The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive. - Rick Riordan

  4. When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. - J.k. Rowling

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More Quotes By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  1. Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

  2. No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

  3. There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

  4. Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

  5. One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being...

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