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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Our circle will be small but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune.
2 My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity.
3 When I reflected on his crimes and malice, my hatred and revenge burst all bounds of moderation.
4 Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by such slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity or ruin.
5 We took our passage on board a vessel bound for Havre-de-Grace and sailed with a fair wind from the Irish shores.
6 Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
7 To England, therefore, I was bound, and it was understood that my union with Elizabeth should take place immediately on my return.
8 My rage was without bounds; I sprang on him, impelled by all the feelings which can arm one being against the existence of another.
9 But I was restrained, when I thought of the heroic and suffering Elizabeth, whom I tenderly loved, and whose existence was bound up in mine.
10 The blue Mediterranean appeared, and by a strange chance, I saw the fiend enter by night and hide himself in a vessel bound for the Black Sea.
11 He bounded over the crevices in the ice, among which I had walked with caution; his stature, also, as he approached, seemed to exceed that of man.
12 In a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational creature and was bound towards him to assure, as far as was in my power, his happiness and well-being.
13 I thought of pursuing the devil; but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve, a hill that bounds Plainpalais on the south.
14 But the old man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend, who, when he found the father inexorable, quitted his country, nor returned until he heard that his former mistress was married according to her inclinations.
15 As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens; the blast tore along like a mighty avalanche and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that burst all bounds of reason and reflection.
16 I saw plainly that he was surprised, but he never attempted to draw my secret from me; and although I loved him with a mixture of affection and reverence that knew no bounds, yet I could never persuade myself to confide in him that event which was so often present to my recollection, but which I feared the detail to another would only impress more deeply.
17 You have travelled; you have spent several years of your life at Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude from the society of every creature, I could not help supposing that you might regret our connection and believe yourself bound in honour to fulfil the wishes of your parents, although they opposed themselves to your inclinations.
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