"Dreams are but the reflections of our waking hours."

"When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? I cannot describe to you the agony that these re…"

"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, kinder, better than ourselves, do not take us in hand."

"My dreams were at first replete with the terrible circumstances of my creation and murder."

"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."