Stephenie Meyer (1973) American author
Bella Swan to Edward Cullen, p. 143
Twilight series, Eclipse (2007)
Source: Ender's Game
Stephenie Meyer (1973) American author
Bella Swan to Edward Cullen, p. 143
Twilight series, Eclipse (2007)
“He is indeed a creature of evil; but so are you, and so am I.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
Source: Fiction, The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983), The Urth of the New Sun (1987), Chapter 43, "The Evening Tide" (p. 303)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
The monster to the blind man in Ch. 15
Frankenstein (1818)
Context: I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.
“Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!”
Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) Scottish writer
Letter to Eliza Stodart (29 February 1836).
John Ford (dramatist) The Broken Heart
Act I, sc. iii.
The Broken Heart (c. 1625-33)
Thomas De Quincey book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Pt. I.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
Max Stirner book The Ego and Its Own
Ich setze Mich nicht voraus, weil Ich Mich jeden Augenblick überhaupt erst setze oder schaffe, und nur dadurch Ich bin, dass Ich nicht vorausgesetzt, sondern gesetzt bin, und wiederum nur in dem Moment gesetzt, wo ich mich setze, d.h. Ich bin Schöpfer un Geschöpf in Einem.
Cambridge 1995, p. 135
The Ego and Its Own (1845)