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February 20, 2022

I just finished reading Frankenstein and I am INCONSOLABLE. so to cope I'm writing this. it'll be a little highlight reel of all the quotes I saved while reading.

quotes that made me go "ha, gay"

• Walton referring to Victor as "the brother of my heart." -p. 59
• "He is too pretty for a boy." -p. 99
• "Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart..." -p. 103
• "...hasten then, my dear friend, to return that I may again feel myself somewhat at home, which I cannot do in your absence." -p. 202

quotes that I just think sound nice

• "...why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt, and must feel?" -p. 74
• "To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death..." -p. 82
• "Fear overcame me; I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them." -p. 108
• "Dear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer?" -p. 109
• "The mere presence of the idea was an irresistible proof of the fact..." -p. 111
• "I have been the author of unalterable evil..." -p. 126
• "...the tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes." -p. 134
• "...although it be only an accumulation of anguish..." -p. 135
• "--I ought to be thy Adam--but I am rather the fallen angel." -p. 135
• "I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind?" -p. 183
• "...if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." -p. 183
• "...my heart often sickened at the work of my hands." -p. 204
• "You are my creator, but I am your master--" -p. 207
• "'And whose death,' cried I, 'is to finish the tragedy?'" -p. 223
• "...far from being surprised at my misery, you will only wonder that I live." -p. 230
• "But revenge kept me alive...They were dead, and I lived. Their murderer also lived, and to destroy him I must drag out my weary existence." -p. 242
• "I was cursed by some devil and bore about with me my eternal hell..." -p. 243
• "My heart was made for love and sympathy; and, when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine." -p. 258

quotes that made me go "oh..." and stare at the wall

• "If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind..." -p. 87
• "There was always scope for fear so long as any thing that I loved remained alive." -p. 126
• "I would sacrifice my life to your peace." -p. 128
• "Every where I see bliss from which I alone am irrecoverably excluded." -p. 135
• "...misery made me a fiend." -p. 135
• "Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?" -p. 220
• "Yet I would die to make her happy." -p. 229
• "And am I the only criminal, while all mankind sinned against me?" -p. 259
• "Stained by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?" -p. 260

quotes that were generally just funny

• "...as musty as they are ancient..." -p. 77
• "...who was so gentle yet so gay..." -p. 105

short quotes worth mentioning

• "Beautiful!--Great God!..." -p. 89
• "...my more than sister..." -p. 121
• "...misery has come home..." -p. 127
• "...affection and mutual misfortune." -p. 231
• "...godlike in ruin." -p. 250
• "...be men, or be more than men..." -p. 253