I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Quote More from Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley “The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.” “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the …” “If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affectio…” “Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been,…”