“None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Should what you get up to fail to comport with who you think you are, something is surely inaccurate (and likely optimistic) about who you think you are.”
― The Post-Birthday World
― The Post-Birthday World
“For the living, death is thievery.”
― The Post-Birthday World
― The Post-Birthday World
“As a child I scribbled; and my favorite pastime during the hours given me for recreation was to ‘write stories’. Still, I had a dearer pleasure than this, which was the formation of castles in the air – the indulging in waking dreams – the following up trains of thought, which had for their subject the formation of a succession of imaginary incidents.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“There were lots of lies along the way in life. Lies without arms, lies that were ill, lies that did harm, lies that could kill. Lies on foot, or behind the wheel, black-tie lies, and lies that could steal.”
― פתאום דפיקה בדלת
― פתאום דפיקה בדלת
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