I've always loved Mary ...

I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.
 Mordicai Gerstein

Quotes from the same author

I almost always see what I didn't achieve, to a smaller or greater extent.
 Mordicai Gerstein