Chapter 23 Quotes — Frankenstein

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Great God! Why did I not then expire! Why am I here to relate the destruction of the best hope and the purest creature on earth?

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.

My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that it is the devouring and only passion of my soul.

She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair.

A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.

Mine has been a tale of horrors; I have reached their acme, and what I must now relate can but be tedious to you.

"Oh! Peace, peace, my love," replied I; "this night, and all will be safe; but this night is dreadful, very dreadful."