1"And now, dear Margaret,
do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose?"
2"Do you share my madness?
Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught?"
3"There was a sense of justice in my father's upright mind
which rendered it necessary that he should approve highly to love strongly."
4"He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic
is sheltered by the gardener."
5"A being heaven sent, and bearing
a celestial stamp in all her features."
6"My more-than-sister,
since till death she was to be mine only."
7"My inquiries were directed to the metaphysical,
or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world."
8"The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone
like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peaceful home."
9"Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws
had decreed my utter and terrible destruction."
10"Elizabeth, my love, you must
supply my place to my younger children."
11"She indeed veiled her grief
and strove to act the comforter to us all."
12"Remember, I am not recording
the vision of a madman."
13"With unrelaxed and breathless eagerness,
I pursued nature to her hiding places."
14"It was on a dreary night of November
that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils."
15"Now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished,
and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."
16"As I imprinted the first kiss on her lips,
they became livid with the hue of death."
17"I beheld the wretch,
the miserable monster whom I had created."
18"William is dead!
Victor, he is murdered!"
19"O God! I have murdered
my darling infant!"
20"It represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair,
kneeling by the coffin of her dead father."
21"She is innocent, my Elizabeth,
and that shall be proved."
22"The tortures of the accused did not equal mine;
she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom."
23"Rise, my poor girl,
why do you kneel, if you are innocent?"
24"William and Justine, the first hapless victims
to my unhallowed arts."
26"Do your duty towards me, and
I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind."
27"Cursed (though I curse myself)
be the hands that formed you."
28"You have made me wretched
beyond expression."
29"You, my creator,
abhor me."
30"I had admired the perfect forms of my cottagers
but how I was terrified when I viewed myself in a transparent pool."
31"She threw up her veil, and I beheld
a countenance of angelic beauty and expression."
32"Felix seemed
ravished with delight."
34"The Arabian sat
at the feet of the old man."
35"The father of Safie
had been the cause of their ruin."
36"Intellect and an independence of spirit
forbidden to the female followers of Mahomet."
37"Safie sickened at the prospect
of again returning to Asia."
38"A residence in Turkey
was abhorrent to her."
39"Benevolence and generosity
were ever present before me."
40"Paradise Lost excited different
and far deeper emotions."
41"Many times I considered Satan
as the fitter emblem of my condition."
42"Cursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous
that even you turned from me in disgust?"
43"The hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest,
are full of brotherly love and charity."
44"The cottage was quickly
enveloped by flames."
45"Monster! Ugly wretch!
You wish to eat me and tear me to pieces."
46"I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled
with exultation and Hellish triumph."
47"I bent over her and whispered,
'awake, fairest - thy lover is near'."
48"You must create
a female for me."
49"If I cannot inspire love,
I will cause fear."
50"Trembling with passion, I tore to pieces
the thing on which I was engaged."
51"Never will I create another like yourself,
equal in deformity and wickedness."
52"Shall each man find a wife for his bosom,
and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?"
53"You, my tyrant and tormentor,
shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery."
54"Remember; I shall be with you
on your wedding night."
55"Have my murderous machinations
deprived you also, my dearest Henry, of life?"
57"I am not mad! The sun and heavens
can bear witness of my truth."
58"Our marriage would render me eternally miserable
unless it were the dictate of your own free choice."
59"Her bloodless arms and relaxed form
flung by the murderer on its bridal bier."
60"You hate me, but your abhorrence
cannot equal that with which I regard myself."
61"Farewell, Frankenstein! Blasted as thou wert,
my agony was still superior to thine."
62"He was borne away by the waves
and lost in darkness and distance."
63“Seek happiness in
tranquility, and avoid ambition.”
64“I had selected
his features as beautiful.”