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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Yet it is terrible to reflect that the lives of all these men are endangered through me.
2 Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.
3 There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me.
4 I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries.
5 Before, I had only imagined the wretchedness of my desolated home; the reality came on me as a new, and a not less terrible, disaster.
6 When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.
7 The latter name made me tremble when pronounced by Henry, and I hastened to quit Matlock, with which that terrible scene was thus associated.
8 But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound.
9 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.
10 Doubtless my words surprised Henry; he at first believed them to be the wanderings of my disturbed imagination, but the pertinacity with which I continually recurred to the same subject persuaded him that my disorder indeed owed its origin to some uncommon and terrible event.