frankenstein quotes
"it gives me the greatest delight to see you; tell me how you left my father, brothers, and Elizabeth."
victor asking clerval how his brothers and sisters were before he left
"D-n the fellow! why, M. Clerval, i assure you he has outstript us all. Ay, stare if you please; but is nevertheless true. a youngster who, but a few years ago, believed in cornelius agrippa as firmly as in the Gospel, has now set himself at the head of the university; and if he is not soon pulled down, we shall all be out of countenance. Ay, ay, M. Frankenstein is modest, an excellent quality in a young man. young men should be diffident of themselves, you know M. Clerval: I was myself when young, but that wears out in a very short time."
M. Krempe talking to Frank
I am happy, to have gained a disciple; and if your application equals your ability, I have no doubt if your success. Chemistry is that branch of natural philosophy in which the greatest improvements have been and may be made; it is on that account that I have made it my peculiar study; but at the same time, i have not neglected the other branches of science. a man would make but a very sorry chemist if he attended to that department of human knowledge alone. if your wish is to become really a man of science, and not merely a petty experimentalist, i should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics."
M. Krempe talking to victor
"oh Justine! Why did you rob me of my last consolation? I relied on your innocence, and although I was then very wretched, I was not so miserable as I am now."
elizabeth to justine
"how kind and generous you are! Everyone else believes in her guilt, and that made me wretched, for I knew that it was impossible: and to see everyone else prejudiced in so deadly a manner rendered me hopeless and despairing"
elizabeth to frank and father
"If this is your present temper, my friend, you will perhaps be glad to see a letter that has been lying here some days for you: it is from your cousin, i believe."
clerval talking to frank
"compose yourself, i will not mention it if it agitates you; but your father and cousin would be very happy if they received a letter from you in your own handwriting. they hardly know how ill you have been, and are uneasy at your long silence."
clerval talking to frank abt father and cousin
"You will repay me entirely, if you do not discompose yourself, but get wells fast as you can; and since you appear in such good spirits , i may speak to you on one subject, may i not?"
clerval talking to frankenstein
"my dear Victor, what, for God's sake, is the matter? Do not laugh in that manner. How ill you are! What is the cause of all this?"
clerval talking to victor
"very well, very happy, only a little uneasy that they hear from you so seldom. By the by, I mean to lecture you a little upon their account myself. But, my dear Frankenstein, I did not before remark how very ill you appear; so thin and pale; you look as if you had been watching for several nights."
clerval talking to victor about his family
"you may easily believe, how great was the difficulty to persuade my father thatt all necessary knowledge was not comprised in the noble art of book-keeping; and, indeed, I believe I left him incredulous to the last, for his constant answer to my unwearied entreaties was the same as that to the Dutch schoolmaster in the Vicar of Wakefield: 'I have 10,000 florins a year without Greek, i eat heartily without Greek.' but his affection for me at length overcame his dislike of learning, and he has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge."
clerval talking to victor about his father
" I had rather be with you in your solitary rainbows, then with the scotch people, whom I do not know: hasten, then, my dear friend, to return, that I may again feel myself somewhat at home, which I cannot do in your absence."
clerval to frank
"I have seen the most beautiful scenes of my own country; I have visited the lakes of Lucerne and Uri, where the snowy mountains descend almost perpendicularly to the water, casting black and impenetrable shades, which would cause a gloomy and mournful appearance were it not for the most verdant islands that relieve the eye in their gay appearance; I have seen this lake agitated by a tempest, when the wind tore up whirlwinds of water and gave you an idea of what the waterspout must be on the great ocean; and the waves - with fury the base of the mountain, with the priest and his mistress were overwhelmed by an avalanche and where they're dying voices are still said to be heard amid the pauses of the nightly wind; I have seen the mountains of La Valais, and the Pays de Vaud: But this country, Victor, pleases me more than all those wonders. The mountains of Switzerland are more majestic and strange; but there is a charm in the banks of this divine river, they never before saw equalled. look at that castle which overhangs Jan precipice; and that also on the island, almost concealed amongst the foliage of those lovely trees; and now that group of laborers coming from among their minds; in that village half hid in the recess of the mountain. Oh well, surely the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man then those who pile the glacier, or retire to the in accessible peaks of the mountains of our own country."
clerval to frank
"My dear Frankenstein, are we always to be unhappy? My dear friend, what has happened?"
clerval to frank
"i can offer no consolation, my friend, your disaster is irreparable. what do you intend to do?"
clerval to frank
"Poor william! Dear lovely child, he now sleeps with his angel mother! who that had seen him bright and joyous in his young beauty, but must weep over his untimely loss! to die so miserably; to feel the murderer's grasp! how much more a murderer, that could destroy such radiant innocence! poor little fellow! one only consolation have we; his friends mourn and weep, but he is at rest. the pang is over, his sufferings are at end forever. a sod covers his gentle form, and he knows no pain. he can no longer be a subject for pity; we must that for his miserable survivors."
clerval to frank about willy
"come, so you must follow me to Mr. Kirwin's, to give an account of yourself." "Who is Mr. Kirwin? Why am I to give an account of myself? Is this not a free country?" " Ay, sir, free enough for honest folks. Mr. Kirstin is a magistrate; and you were to give an account of the death of a gentleman who was found murdered here last night."
conversation between man and frank about murder of henry clerval
" my good friends will you be so kind as to tell me the name of this town, and inform me where I am?" "You will know that soon enough. Maybe you are coming to a place that will not prove much to your taste; but you will not be consulted as to your quarters, I promise you." " why do you answer me so roughly? Surely it is not the custom of Englishmen to receive strangers so inhospitably." "I do not know what the custom of the English maybe; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains."
conversation between villager and frank
" be calm! I entreat you to hear me, before you give vent to your hatred on my devoted head. Have I not suffered enough, that you seek to increase my misery? Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. Remember, thou hast made me more powerful than thyself; my height is superior to thine, my joints more supple. But I will not be tempted to set myself an opposition to thee."
creature to frank
"I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural Lord and King, if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me. Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom die justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from Joy for no Misdeed. Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded. I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous."
creature to frank
"I expected this reception, all men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spur me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. You purpose to kill me. How dare you sport thus with life? Do your duty towards me and I will do mine toward you and the rest of mankind. If you will comply with my conditions I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends."
creature to frank
"I intended to reason. This passion is detrimental to me; for you do not reflect that you are the cause of its excess. If any being filled emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them an hundred and an hundredfold; for that one creature's sake, I would make peace with the whole kind! But I now indulge in dreams of bliss that cannot be realized. When I ask of you is reasonable and moderate; I demand a creature of another sex, but is hideous as myself; the gratification is small, but it is all that I can receive, and it shall content me. It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless, and free from the misery I now feel. Oh my creator, make me happy; let me feel gratitude towards you for one benefit! Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing; do not deny me my request!"
creature to frank
"but that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union. Yet mine shall not be submission of abject slavery. I will revenge my injuries: if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care: I will work at your destruction, nor finish until i desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour if your birth."
creature to frank
"how can I move thee? Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favorable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion? Believe me, Frankenstein: I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing? They spurn and hate me. The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge. I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwelling to me, and the only one which man does not grudge. these bleak skies I hail, for they are kinder to me than your fellow beings. If the multitude of mankind knew of my existence, they would do as usual, and arm themselves for my destruction."
creature to frank
"how inconstant are your feelings! But a moment ago you were moved by my representations, and why do you again harden yourself to my complaints? I swear to you, by the earth which I inhabit, and by you that made me, that with the companion you bestow I will quit the neighborhood of man, and dwell, as it may chance in the most savage of places. My evil passions will have fled, for i shall meet with sympathy! My life will slow quietly away, and did my dying moments i shall not curse my maker."
creature to frank
"how is this? I must not be trifled with: and I demand an answer. If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing of whose existence everyone will be ignorant. My vices are the children before solitude that i abhor; and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal. I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being, and become linked to the chain of existence and events, from which I am now excluded."
creature to frank
"if you consent, neither you nor any other human being should I ever see us again: I will go to the vast wilds of South America. My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment. My companion will be of the same nature as myself, and will be content with the same fair. We shall make a bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us as on man, and ripen our food. The picture i present to you is peaceful and human, and you must feel that you could deny only in the wontanness of power and cruelty. pitiless as you have been towards me, I now see compassion your eyes; let me seize the favorable moment and persuade you to promise what i so ardently desire."
creature to frank
"shall I not then hate them who abhor me? I will keep no terms with my enemies. I am miserable, and they shall share my wretchedness. Yet it is in your power to recompense me, and deliver them from an evil which it only remains for you to make so great, that only you and your family, but thousands of others, shall be swallowed up in the whirlwinds of its rage. Let your compassion be moved, and do not disdain me. Listen to my tale: when you have heard that, abandon her commiserate me, as you shall judge that I deserve. But hear me. The guilty are allowed, by human laws bloody as they are, to speak in their own defense before they are condemned. Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder, and yet you would, with the satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. oh, praise the eternal justice of man! Yeah I ask you not to spare me: listen to me; then, if you can, and if you will, destroy the work of your hands."
creature to frank
" I wish, that I were to die with you; I cannot live in this world of misery."
elizabeth to justine
"Oh Justine! Forgive me for having for one moment distrusted you. Why did you confess? But do not mourn, dear girl. Do not fear. I will proclaim, I will prove your innocence. I will melt the stony hearts of your enemies by my tears and prayers. You shall not die! You, my play fellow, my companion, my sister, perish on the scaffold! No! No! I never could survive so horrible a misfortune."
elizabeth to justine
"thus i leave thee, my creator, thus i take from thee a sight with which you abhor. still thou canst listen to me and grant me thy compassion. by the virtues that i once possessed, i demand this from you. hear my take; it is long and strange, and the temperature of this place is not fitting to your fine sensations; come to the hut upon the mountain. the sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself beyond yon snowy precipices, and illuminate another world, you will have heard my story and decide. on you it rests, whether i quit forever the neighborhood of man and lead a harmless life, or become the scourge of your fellow creatures, and the author of your own speedy ruin."
creature to frank
"you are in the wrong, and instead of threatening, I'm content to reason with you. I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? you would not call it murder, if you could precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts, and destroy my frame, the work of your hands. Shall I respect man when he contemns me? Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness; and, instead of injury I would be stuck every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude and his acceptance."
creature to frank
I swear, by the sun, and the blue sky of heaven, and by the fire of love that burns my heart, that if you grant my prayer, while they exist you should never behold me again. Depart to your home, and commence your labours: I shall watch their progress with unutterable anxiety; and fear not but that when you are ready i shall appear."
creature to frank
"you must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being. This you alone can do; and I demanded of you as a rate would you must not refuse to concede."
creature to frankenstein
"no, justine, he is more convinced of your innocence when I was; for even when he heard that you had confessed, he did not credit it."
elizabeth justine
" when I reflect, my dear cousin, on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and it works as they before appeared to me. Before, I looked up on the accounts of vice an injustice, that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evil; at least they were remote, and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood. Yet I am certainly unjust. Every body believed that poor girl to be guilty; and if she could've committed the crime for what she's suffered, assuredly she would have been the most depraved of human creatures. for the sake of a few jewels, to have murdered the son of her benefactor and friend, a child who she had nursed from its birth, and appeared to love as it had been her own! I could not consent to the death of any human being; but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit to remain in the society of men. But she was innocent. I know, I feel, she was innocent; you are of the same opinion, and that confirms me. Alas! Victor, one falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness? I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavoring to plunge me into the abyss. william and justine were assassinated, and the murderer escapes; he walks about the world free, and perhaps respected. but even if i were condemned to suffer on the scaffold for the same crimes, i would not trade places with such a wretch."
elizabeth to frank
"My dearest friend, you must calm yourself. These events have affected me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are. There is an expression of despair, and sometimes of revenge, in your countenance that makes me tremble. Dear Victor, banish the dark passions. Remember the friends around you, who center all their hopes in you. have we lost the power of rendering you happy? ah! while we love - while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing - what can disturb our peace?"
elizabeth to frank
"Your arrival, my dear cousin, fills me with hope. you perhaps will find some means to justify my poor guiltless justine. alas! who is safe if she be convicted of crime? i rely on her innocence as certainly as i do upon my own. our misfortune is doubly hard to us; we have not only lost that lovely darling boy, but this poor girl, whom i sincerely love, is to be torn away by even a worse fate. if she is condemned, i never shall know joy more. but she will not, i am sure she will not; and then i shall be happy again, even after the sad death of my little william!"
elizabeth to frank
"yes, I will go, although she is guilty; you, Victor, so the company me: I cannot go alone"
elizabeth to frank
Alas! How shall I ever again believe in human goodness? Justine, whom I love and esteemed as my sister, how could she put on those smiles of innocence only to betray? Her mild eyes seemed incapable of any severity or guile, and yet she has committed a murder
elizabeth to frank
"rise, my poor girl, why do you kneel, if you are innocent? I am not one of your enemies; I believed you guiltless, notwithstanding every evidence, until I heard that you had yourself declared your guilt. That report, you say, is false; and be assured, dear justine, that nothing can shake my confidence in you for a moment, but your own confession."
elizabeth to justine
"dearest niece, dry your tears. If she is, as you believe, innocent, rely on the justice of our laws, and the activity with which I shall prevent the slightest shadow of partiality."
father to elizabeth
"I am happy to remark, my dear son, that you have resumed your former pleasures, and seem to be returning to yourself. And yet you are still unhappy, and still avoid our society. For sometime I was lost in conjecture as to the cause of this; but yesterday an idea struck me, and if it is well-founded, I conjure you to avow it. Reserve on such a point would not be only use this, but draw down treble misery on us all."
father to frank
"I confess, my son, but I've always looked forward to your marriage with our dear Elizabeth at the time of our domestic comfort, and this day of my declining years. You were attached each other from your earliest infancy; you started together, and appeared, and dispositions and taste, and Charlie said it's one another. So blind is the experience of man, but what I can see you to be the best assistance to my plan may have a time just read it. You, perhaps come in the garden has your sister, but I only wish that she might become your wife. Kneko, you may have met with another whom you my love; and, considering yourself is bound an honor to Elizabeth, the struggle me occasion to put pregnant misery with you of her to feel"
father to frank
"The expression of your sentiments of this subject, my dear Victor, gives me more pleasure than I have for sometime experienced. If you feel this, we shall assuredly be happy, however present events may cast a gloom over us. But it is this gloom, which appears to have taken so strong hold of your mind, that I wish to dissipate. Tell me, therefore, whether you object to an immediate solemnization of the marriage. We have been unfortunate, and recent events have drawn us from that every day tranquility befitting my years and infirmities. You are younger; yet I do not suppose, possessed as you are of a completed i you are younger; yet I do not suppose, possessed as you are of the competent Fortune, that an early marriage would at all interfere with any future plans of honor and utility that you may have formed. Do not suppose, however, that I wish to dictate happiness to you, or that I delay on your part would cause me any serious uneasiness. Interpret my words of candor, and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity."
father to frank
"if she is god forbid that she has to suffer as guilty. she is to be tried today, and i hope, i sincerely hope, she will be acquitted"
father to frank
"we do also, unfortunately, for indeed i had rather been forever ignorant than have discovered so much depravity and ingratitude in one i valued so highly."
father to frank
"Is that all my dear Henry? how could you suppose that my first thought would not fly towards those dear, dear friends whom i love, and who are so deserving of my love?"
frank talking to clerval
"have my murderous machinations deprived you also, my dearest Henry, of life? Two I have already destroyed; other victims with your destiny: for you, clerval, my friend, I benefactor-"
frank talking to dead body of clerval
"William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this is thy durge!"
frank talking to himself
"Dear, dear Elizabeth, I will write instantly, and relieve them of the anxiety they must feel."
frank talking to himself about elizabeth
"dear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer? your summits are clear; the sky and the lake are blue and placid. is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock my unhappiness?"
frank talking to nature....?
" do you enjoy yourself, let this be our rendezvous. I may be absent a month or two; but do not interfere with my motions, I entreat you: leave me to peace and solitude for a short time; and when I return, I hope it will be with a lighter heart, more congenial to your own temper."
frank to clerval
"to go instantly to Geneva: come with me, Henry, to order the horse."
frank to clerval
"Devil, do you dare approach me? And do not you fear the fierce vengeance of my arm reeked on your miserable head? Be gone, vile insect! Or rather, stay, then I may trample you to dust! And, oh! That I could, with the extinction of your miserable existence, restore those victims whom you have so diabolically murdered!"
frank to creature
"I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe forever, and every other place in the neighborhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile."
frank to creature
"I do refuse it, and you know torture shall ever extort a consent from me. You may render me the most miserable of men, but you should never make me base in my own eyes. Shall I create another like yourself, who's joint wickedness might desolate the world? Begone! I have answered you; you may torture me, but I will never consent."
frank to creature
"abhorred monster! fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell or too mild a vengeance for thy crimes. Wretched devil! You reproach me with your creation; come on, then, that i may extinguish the spark which I so negligently bestowed."
frank to creature
"be gone! I will not hear you. There can be no community between you and me; we are enemies. Be gone, or let us try our strength in a fight in which one must fall."
frank to creature
"why do you call to my remembrance, circumstances, of which I shudder to reflect, that I have been a miserable origin and author? Cursed be the day, abhorred devil, in which you first saw the light! Cursed (although I curse myself) be the hands that formed you! You have made me wretched beyond expression. You have left me no power to consider whether I am just to you, or not. begone! Relieve me from the sight of your detested form."
frank to creature
"you propose, to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions. How can you, who long for the love and sympathy of man, persevere in this exile? you Will return, and again seek their kindness, and you will meet with their detestation; you're evil passions will be renewed, and you will then have a companion to aid you in the task of destruction. This may not be: cease to argue the point, for I cannot consent."
frank to creature
"you swear, to be harmless; but have you not already shown a degree of malice that should reasonably make me distrust you? May not even this be a feint that will increase your triumph by affording a wider scope for your revenge?"
frank to creature m
"my cousin, it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that 10 innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape but she has confessed."
frank to elizabeth
"she is innocent, my elizabeth, and that shall be proved; fear nothing, but let your spirits be cheered by the assurance of her acquittal."
frank to elizabeth
"Justine Moritz! poor, poor girl, is she accused? but it is wrongfully; everyone knows that; no one believes it, surely, ernest?"
frank to ernest
"The murderer discovered! good god! how can that be? who could attempt to pursue him? it is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds or confine a mountain-stream with a straw. i saw him too; he was free last night!"
frank to ernest
"You are all mistaken; i know the murderer. justine, poor, good justine, is innocent."
frank to ernest
"Alas! My father, how little do you know me. Human beings, their feelings and passions, would indeed be degraded, if such a wretch as I felt pride. Justine, poor unhappy justine, was as innocent as I, and she suffered the same charge; she died for it; and I am the cause of this- I murdered her. William, Justine, and Henry- they all died by my hands."
frank to father
"My dear father, reassure yourself. I love my cousin tenderly and sincerely. I never saw any woman who excited, as Elizabeth does, my warmest admiration and affection. My future hopes and prospects are entirely bound up an expectation of our union."
frank to father
"my dear father, you are mistaken; justine is innocent."
frank to father
"I thank you; but all that you mentioned is nothing to me: on the whole earth there's no comfort which I'm capable of receiving."
frank to kirwin
"man, how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! cease; you know not what it is you say."
frank to kirwin
"that is my least concern: I am, by a course of strange events, become the most miserable of mortals. Persecuted and tortured as I am and have been, can death be any evil to me?"
frank to kirwin
" Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable."
frank to monster
" begone! I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness."
frank to monster
"The hour of my your resolution is past, and the period of your power is arrived. Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they can for me and the determination of not treating you a companion invoice. Shall I, in cold blood, set loose upon the earth a demon, who is the light is in death and wretchedness? Be gone! I am firm, and your words will only exasperate my rage."
frank to monster
"wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life."
frank to nature.....?
"Dearest Clerval, how kind, how very goof you are to me. This whole winter, instead of being spent in a study, as you promised yourself, has been consumed in my sick room. How shall I ever repay you? I feel the greatest remorse for disappointment of which I have been the occasion; but you will forgive me."
frankenstein talking to clerval
"my dear Frankenstein, how glad I am to see you! How fortunate that you should be here at the very moment of my alighting!"
henry clerval talking to frankenstein
"I did confess; but I confessed a lie. I confessed, that I might obtain absolution; but now that falsehood lies heavier at my heart than all my other sins. The God of heaven forgive me! Ever since I was condemned, my confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was. He threatened excommunication and hell fire in my last moments if I continued obdurate. dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition. What could I do? In an evil hour I subscribe to a lie; and now only am I truly miserable."
justine to elizabeth
"I do not fear to die, that pang is past. God raises my weakness, and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patients to the will of heaven!"
justine to elizabeth
"I thought with horror, my sweet lady, that you should believe your Justine, whom you're blessed aunt had so highly honored and whom you loved, was a creature capable of a crime which none but the devil himself could have perpetrated. dear William! Dearest blessed child! I soon shall see you again in heaven, where we shall be happy; and that consoles me, going as I am to suffer ignominy and death."
justine to elizabeth
"and do you also believe that I am so very, very wicked? You also join with my enemies to crush me, to condemn me as a murderer?"
justine to elizabeth
"farewell, sweet lady, dearest Elizabeth, my beloved and only friend; may Heaven, and it's bounty, bless and preserve you; may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer! Live, and be happy, and make other so."
justine to elizabeth
"I truly thank him. In these last moments I feel the sincerest gratitude toward those who think of me with kindness. How sweet is the affection of others to such a wretch as I am! It removes more than half my misfortune; and I feel as if I could die in peace, now that my innocence is acknowledged by you, dear lady, and your cousin."
justine to elizabeth and frank
" dear Sir, you are very kind to visit me; you, I hope, do not believe that I am guilty."
justine to frank
"God knows, how entirely I am innocent. But I do not pretend that my protestations should acquit me: I rest my innocence on a plain and simple explanation of the facts which have been adduced against me; and I hope the character I have always borne will incline my judges to a favorable interpretation, where any circumstance appears doubtful or suspicious."
justine to judge and jury at court hearing
"I commit my cause to m the justice of the judges, yet I see no room for hope. I beg permission to have a few witnesses examined concerning my character; and if their testimony shall not overweigh my supposed guilt, I must be condemned, although I pledge my salvation on my innocence."
justine to judge and jury at court hearing
"I know, how heavily and fatally this one circumstance weighs against me, but I have no power of explaining it; and when I have expressed my utter ignorance, I am only left to conjecture concerning the probabilities by which it might have been placed in my pocket. But here also I am checked. I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly. Did the murderer place it there? I know of no opportunity afforded him for doing so or if I had why should he have sold the jewel to part with it again so soon?"
justine to judge and jury at court hearint
"I fear that this place is very shocking to you; can I do anything to make you more comfortable?"
kirwin to frank
"I know that the sympathy of a stranger can be but of little relief to one born down as you are by so strange a misfortune. But you will, I hope, soon quit this melancholy abode; for, doubtless, evidence can easily be brought to for you from the criminal charge."
kirwin to frank
"nothing indeed could be more unfortunate and agonizing than the strange chances that have lately occurred. You were thrown, by some surprising accident, on this shore, renowned for its hospitality; seized immediately, and charged with murder. The first sight that was presented to your eyes was the body of your friend, murdered in so unaccountable a manner, and placed, as it were, by some fiend across your path."
kirwin to frank
" it is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding night."
monster to frank
" slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master; - obey!"
monster to frank
" you have destroyed the work would you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise? I have endured toil and misery: I left Switzerland with you; I crept along the shores of the Rhine, among it's Willow islands, and over the summits of its Hills. I have to walk to many months in the health of England, and among the deserts of Scotland. I have endured incalculable fatigue, and cold, and hunger; do you dare destroy my hopes?"
monster to frank
"Shell each man find a wife for his bosom, and each piece to have his mate, and I'd be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detail station and scorn. Man! You may hate; but beware! your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolts will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever. Are you to be happy, well I gravel in the intensity of my wretchedness? You can blast my other passions; but revenge remains Dash revenge, henceforth deer than light or food! I may die; first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun the cases on your misery. Beware; for I am fearless, therefore powerful. I will watch with the willingness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict."
monster to frank
"have you really spent your time in studying such nonsense? every minute, every instance that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost. You have burdened your memory with exploded systems and useless names. Good God! in what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are 1000 years old and as musty as they are ancient? i little expected, in this enlightened and scientific age, to find a disciple of Albertus magnus and paracelsus. My dear Sir, you must begin your studies entirely anew."
professor M. Krempe speaking to victor
"The ancient teachers of this science, promised impossibilities, and performed nothing. The modern masters promise very little; they know that metals cannot be transmuted, and that the elixir of life is Chimera. But these philosophers, whose hands seem only made to dabble in dirt, and their eyes to pore over the microscope or crucible, have indeed performed miracles. They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding places. They ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe. they have acquired New and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders heaven, mimic the earthquake, and even mock The invisible world with its own shadows."
professor M. Waldman talking to victor
"I know that while you are pleased with yourself, you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you. You must pardon me if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected."
victor remembering something his father told him before he left for college
"you have guessed right; I have lately been so deeply engaged in one occupation, that I have not allowed myself sufficient rest, as you see; but I hope, I sincerely hope, that all these employment are now at an end, and that I'm at length free."
victor talking to clerval
"do not ask me, he can tell. Oh, save me! Save me!"
victor talking to clerval about frankenstein
"My children, my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union. This expectation will now be the consolation of your father. Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children. Alas! I regret that I'm taking from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to go with you all? But these are not thoughts befitting me; i will endeavor to resign myself cheerfully to death, and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world."
victor's mothet talking to victor and elizabeth
