Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

“if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I found it now impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption” (pg 57)

“with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places” (pg 57)

“A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquility” (pg 58)

“vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant everything seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash” (pg 74)

“I had turned loose into the world a depraved wretch, whose delight was in carnage and misery” (pg 75)

“I almost began to think I was the monster he said I was” (pg 83)

“men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each other’s blood” (pg 87)

“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows, and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us” (pg 91)

“when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification” (pg 104)

“I looked upon them as superior beings, who would be the arbiters of my future destiny” (pg 105)

“Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?” (pg 109)