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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes

What is there so fearful as the expectation of evil tidings delayed? ... Misery is a more welcome visitant when she comes in her darkest guise and wraps us in perpetual black, for then the heart no longer sickens with disappointed hope.- The Evil Eye

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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