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“Anning [Mary, a woman who was the first to unearth a plesiosaur] was not among them; the Geological Society would be closed to women for almost another century, until 1919. At the time of the talk, only two plesiosaurs had ever been found. Mary Anning had found both of them. Conybeare (man giving speech at the society) never mentioned her name.”

When dinosaur bones were first found, they were believed to be bones from giant humans bc they couldn’t comprehend a separate species existed and then ceased to exist.

Before they knew what fossils were, they would find them and sell them as knickknacks, souvenirs, and to people who were superstitious, they were viewed similarly as we view crystals today!

“ If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for color, for love.”

“The sun might shine or the clouds might lour; but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”

Emma left for vacation with her mom today and my own personal circumstances are causing this part of the book to strike fear in my heart <\3

Frankenstein’s monster seems to be used as a mirror for humanity— seeing how he knows nothing from creation but grows to learn of pleasures and horrors.

The dream he has right after his creation frightening him with depictions of death and worms furthering the idea humans aren’t to create life in this way!!!!

I love the contrasting words and feelings he’s experiencing when creating the monster; viewing it as beautiful but feeling “horror” as this act is outside of human action.

Every winter (since last) I’ve gotten the urge to read this book.

“It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw everyday, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for ever…”

Had so many books I wanted to read sitting in my photos and now they are on my tbr ✨

“You may conceive my astonishment on hearing such a question addressed to me from a man on the brink of destruction…”

Stating over with a physical copy— tried to read on my phone before bed for a bit, but wasn’t really getting anything out of it.

“Nora wanted to live in a world where no cruelty existed, but the only worlds she had an available to her were worlds with humans in them.”

“According to science you start off as coal and you end up as coal.”

“Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.”

Matt Haig is a very romantic writer.

“Sometimes regrets aren’t based on fact at all, sometimes regrets are total bullshit.”