Chapter 20 Quotes — Frankenstein

It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.

You are my creator, but I am your master; obey!

Had I right, for my own benefit, to inflict this curse upon everlasting generations?

You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains—revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food!

Shall each man find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone?

I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.

Three years before, I was engaged in the same manner and had created a fiend whose unparalleled barbarity had desolated my heart and filled it for ever with the bitterest remorse.

I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.

I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.

You have destroyed the work which you began; what is it that you intend? Do you dare to break your promise?