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I'm bored already

"There was too great an emotional cost in writing a book and then watching as people abused it" - Mary Shelley

"She saw herself as a victim of fate, spared for reasons she could not know or understand, and she poured these feelings into her novel [The Last Man]: in the book's climactic scene, the last man steps on board a ship, bound for nowhere, adrift and alone." - Mary Shelley

Things just got dire

"I wish I could break my chains and leave this dungeon" - Mary Shelley in a letter to Leigh Hunt, a week after a miscarriage and just before Shelley died.

Of course there's no adults! Only the kids survive in YA

"We humans are not in control down here... This is nature's domain."

"Dacre appears to be battling her emotions. I didn't realise she had any."

"It wasn't eternity! It was five hundred years! Get over it!"

"That should have been a ludicrous statement. I was sprawled in front of a dead woman and her dead cat as a storm raged around us, on an island where there was no easy way to escape.
But I felt safe right then."

"There's nothing wrong with us. Or at least not me. You've always been weird."

Aint sisters the best

"We would be staying here for another night. Upon this island where the only way off was at the mercy of the moon."

"The only silence in this room was in the spaces between our words and the second hand movement of the grandfather clock."

That just got real

"As if the house didn't want us to leave, I remember thinking."

I bet Grandmother falling out of the cupboard would have woken up these unable-to-be-jump-scared kids. Although they did scream at the spider. Maybe its only dead things that bore them

I question Jack's spider knowledge. They have fangs for a reason Jack...

"Running away always requires a torch, right?"

A few other slightly more vital things when you're 4kms underwater...

"He assumes police help people. How nice."

"I bet Nancy Drew never had a part time job."

Sucks to be a teenage detective...

I'm not a surfer, but I'm pretty sure every surfer knows they're in shark infested waters when they surf. I know skating and the small amount of skating isn't written well, so I wonder how well the surfing and surf life saving is written. But I'm so bored with this book, so I'm picking holes here, there and everywhere.

"That's what the ocean does, wiping slates clean so you can forget everything else."

"I tried not to think of the similarities between that cigarette and us."

"I've never had real friends before, let alone the kind that will help me bury a body."

"No sequels" are my two fav words

"Maybe Godwin, impeccably educated as he was, could teach her the rules of syntax - an unlikely foundation for romance, perhaps, but for Mary, there could be few more intimate exchanges."

For Mary Shelley "uncontrolled patriarchal power was dangerous for everyone, including men."

This is so hard to read (unsurprisingly)

"The clouds begin to gather, and summer disappears almost before it has ripened the fruit of autumn" - Mary Wollstonecraft

"To her, Gilbert's betrayal, his disagreement with her about how to live one's life, represented the ultimate collision of ideologies; he stood for the commercial forces of the Industrial Revolution; she stood for the truth of the mind and the heart."