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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge.
2 I have dwelt many months in the heaths of England and among the deserts of Scotland.
3 On her deathbed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her.
4 There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me.
5 I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth.
6 It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beautiful flowers and verdure.
7 Behold, on these desert seas I have found such a one, but I fear I have gained him only to know his value and lose him.
8 Sometimes, when nature, overcome by hunger, sank under the exhaustion, a repast was prepared for me in the desert that restored and inspirited me.
9 I have traversed a vast portion of the earth and have endured all the hardships which travellers in deserts and barbarous countries are wont to meet.
10 But my chief delights were the sight of the flowers, the birds, and all the gay apparel of summer; when those deserted me, I turned with more attention towards the cottagers.
11 But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects.
12 Yes, he had followed me in my travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge in wide and desert heaths; and he now came to mark my progress and claim the fulfilment of my promise.
13 He had sworn to quit the neighbourhood of man and hide himself in deserts, but she had not; and she, who in all probability was to become a thinking and reasoning animal, might refuse to comply with a compact made before her creation.
14 My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.
15 Even if they were to leave Europe and inhabit the deserts of the new world, yet one of the first results of those sympathies for which the daemon thirsted would be children, and a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror.