“I can offer you no consolation, my friend," said he; "your disaster is irreparable. What do you intend to do?” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Death! mysterious, ill-visaged friend of weak humanity! Why alone of all mortals have you cast me from your sheltering fold? Oh, for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I said in one of my letters, my dear Margaret, that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy; and the absence of the object of which… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“We sat late. We could not tear ourselves away from each other nor persuade ourselves to say the word "Farewell!" It was… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I agree with you," replied the stranger; "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“You are in the wrong," replied the fiend; "and, instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you. I am malicious… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Excellent friend! how sincerely did you love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I was at first touched by the expressions of his misery; yet, when I called to mind what Frankenstein had said of… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I wished, as it were, to procrastinate all that related to my feelings of affection until the great object, which swallowed up every habit… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“A sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future imparted to me a… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever. I shall satiate my ardent curiosity with the sight of a part of the world never… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I agree with you," replied the stranger; "we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves -- such… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were, high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pass some few… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“A man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
