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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair.
2 The infant had been placed with these good people to nurse: they were better off then.
3 The thatch had fallen in, the walls were unplastered, and the door was off its hinges.
4 It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
5 The rivers were covered with ice, and no fish could be procured; and thus I was cut off from my chief article of maintenance.
6 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.
7 I was undisturbed by thoughts which during the preceding year had pressed upon me, notwithstanding my endeavours to throw them off, with an invincible burden.
8 For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit, but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.
9 When my guest was a little recovered I had great trouble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose restoration evidently depended upon entire repose.
10 A woman deposed that she lived near the beach and was standing at the door of her cottage, waiting for the return of the fishermen, about an hour before she heard of the discovery of the body, when she saw a boat with only one man in it push off from that part of the shore where the corpse was afterwards found.