“You swear”, I said, “to be harmless; but you have not already strewn degree of malice that should reasonably make me distrust you?May not even this be feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge?”- Victor Frankenstein “How is this? I though I had moved your compassion, and yet you still refuse to bestow on me the only benefit that can soften my heart, and render me harmless.If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice myst be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing, of whose existence everyone will be ignorant. My vices are the children of forced solitude that I abhor; and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall feel the affections oof a sensitive being, and become linked t the chain of existence and events, from which now excluded”-The Creature