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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence.
2 We resided principally in the latter, and the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion.
3 You well know, Victor, that our union had been the favourite plan of your parents ever since our infancy.
4 She continued with her foster parents and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.
5 When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.
6 She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate.
7 On the birth of a second son, my junior by seven years, my parents gave up entirely their wandering life and fixed themselves in their native country.
8 There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.
9 I am," said she, "the cousin of the unhappy child who was murdered, or rather his sister, for I was educated by and have lived with his parents ever since and even long before his birth.
10 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.