“With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of humankind whom these eyes will ever behold. Farewell, Frankenstein! If thou wert… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Poor William!" said he, "dear lovely child, he now sleeps with his angel mother! Who that had seen him bright and joyous… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I shall quit your vessel on the ice-raft which brought me hither, and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe;… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Be calm! I entreat you to hear me before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head. Have I not… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“But soon," he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm, "I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me, or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet… — 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
