Frankenstein Quotes By Chapter

Front 1

PREFACE AND LETTERS 1-4

Back 1

'conquer all fear of danger or death, and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat'

Walton

Front 2

PREFACE AND LETTERS 1-4

Back 2

' the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil. I have no friend.'

Walton

Front 3

PREFACE AND LETTERS 1-4

Back 3

'being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of giant stature'

Walton

Front 4

PREFACE AND LETTERS 1-4

Back 4

'that I should find no friend on the wide ocean; yet I have found a man who, before his spirit had been broken by misery, I should have been happy to have possessed as the brother of my heart.'

Walton

Front 5

CHAPTERS 1-2

Back 5

'I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic.'

Victor

Front 6

CHAPTERS 1-2

Back 6

'He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.'

Victor

Front 7

CHAPTERS 1-2

Back 7

'bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles.'

Front 8

CHAPTERS 1-2

Back 8

'It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn'

Victor

Front 9

CHAPTERS 3-5

Back 9

'My children,” she said, “my firmest hopes of future happiness were placed on the prospect of your union.”'

Victor

Front 10

CHAPTERS 3-5

Back 10

'Such were the professor’s words—rather let me say such the words of the fate—enounced to destroy me.'

Victor

Front 11

CHAPTERS 3-5

Back 11

'After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue... I became capable of bestowing animation on lifeless matter.'

Victor

Front 12

CHAPTERS 3-5

Back 12

'I saw the dull yellow eye of the monster open; it breathed hard and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.'

Victor