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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 But you have a husband and lovely children; you may be happy.
2 Elizabeth, my love, you must supply my place to my younger children.
3 Madame Moritz, her mother, was a widow with four children, of whom Justine was the third.
4 Little alteration, except the growth of our dear children, has taken place since you left us.
5 My children," she said, "my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.
6 My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal.
7 One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted.
8 The old man, I could perceive, often endeavoured to encourage his children, as sometimes I found that he called them, to cast off their melancholy.
9 It was apparent that my conversation had interested the father in my behalf, and I was a fool in having exposed my person to the horror of his children.
10 When his children had departed, he took up his guitar and played several mournful but sweet airs, more sweet and mournful than I had ever heard him play before.
11 I threw the door forcibly open, as children are accustomed to do when they expect a spectre to stand in waiting for them on the other side; but nothing appeared.
12 During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it spoke of penury in its worst shape.
13 My voice, although harsh, had nothing terrible in it; I thought, therefore, that if in the absence of his children I could gain the good will and mediation of the old De Lacey, I might by his means be tolerated by my younger protectors.
14 Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow-creatures, and rendered me unsocial; but Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect of nature, and the cheerful faces of children.
15 Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror.