frankenstein (book) ... sentence starters
"I will revenge my injuries."
"I did confess, but I confessed a lie."
"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear."
"Sorrow only increased with knowledge."
"I am malicious because I am miserable."
"Live, and be happy, and make others so."
"He might have spoken, but I did not hear."
"I am an unfortunate and deserted creature."
"Yet why were these gentle beings unhappy?"
"Soon these burning miseries will be extinct."
"Shall I respect man when he condemns me?"
"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil…"
"Make me happy, and I again shall be virtuous."
"We are fashioned creatures, but half made up."
"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."
"How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge."
"I must not be trifled with, and I demand an answer…"
"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend."
"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe?"
"Tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?"
"I endeavored to crush these fears and to fortify myself."
"Let your compassion be moved, and do not disdain me."
"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world."
"But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt."
"All joy was but a mockery, which insulted my desolate state."
"It seemed to me as if nothing would or could ever be known."
"I believed myself totally unfitted for the company of strangers."
"What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?"
"There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand."
"Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded."
"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."
"Transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live."
"I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever."
"My heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures."
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as great and sudden change."
"All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable."
"Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains."
"What could I do? In an evil hour I subscribed to a lie; and now only am I truly miserable."
"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."
"Then the appearance of death was distant, although the wish was ever present to my thoughts."
"I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other."
"I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to mine."
"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?"
"You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature."
"Of what strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."
"I shall commit my thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor medium for the communication of feeling."
"There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape."
