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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 She looked steadily on life and assumed its duties with courage and zeal.
2 I lay on the deck looking at the stars and listening to the dashing of the waves.
3 I looked upon them as superior beings who would be the arbiters of my future destiny.
4 Below this picture was a miniature of William; and my tears flowed when I looked upon it.
5 Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.
6 My tale was not one to announce publicly; its astounding horror would be looked upon as madness by the vulgar.
7 I trembled and my heart failed within me, when, on looking up, I saw by the light of the moon the daemon at the casement.
8 The woman asked her what she did there, but she looked very strangely and only returned a confused and unintelligible answer.
9 I well knew that if any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity.
10 Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.
11 She returned to the house about eight o'clock, and when one inquired where she had passed the night, she replied that she had been looking for the child and demanded earnestly if anything had been heard concerning him.
12 I ate my breakfast with pleasure and was about to remove a plank to procure myself a little water when I heard a step, and looking through a small chink, I beheld a young creature, with a pail on her head, passing before my hovel.
13 He paused, looking on me with wonder, and again turning towards the lifeless form of his creator, he seemed to forget my presence, and every feature and gesture seemed instigated by the wildest rage of some uncontrollable passion.
14 She was alarmed by this account and passed several hours in looking for him, when the gates of Geneva were shut, and she was forced to remain several hours of the night in a barn belonging to a cottage, being unwilling to call up the inhabitants, to whom she was well known.
15 Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features.
16 I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.
17 Before, I looked upon the accounts of vice and injustice that I read in books or heard from others as tales of ancient days or imaginary evils; at least they were remote and more familiar to reason than to the imagination; but now misery has come home, and men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other's blood.
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