“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
“For the living, death is thievery.”
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― The Post-Birthday World
“None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Alas! I regret that I am taken from you; and, happy and beloved as I have been, is it not hard to quit 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.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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