Summer - Frankenstein - Volume 1

"do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose. My life might have passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path." p.11
"I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate in my joy" p.12
p20, the frame "He then told me, that he would commence his narrative the next day when I should be at leisure. This promise drew from me the warmest thanks. I have resolved every night, when I am not engaged, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day. If I should be engaged, I will at least make some notes. The manuscript will doubtless afford you the greatest pleasure: but to me, who know him, and who hear it from his own lips, with what interest and sympathy shall I read it in some future day!"

p21 father marries friend’s daughter "He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care, and after the internment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva, and placed her under the protection of a relation."
p22 Was arranged to marry his cousin "These indications, and a desire to bind as closely as possible the ties of domestic love, determined my mother to consider Elizabeth as my future wife; a design which she never found reason to regret."
p24 foreboding "But, in drawing the picture of my early days, I must not omit to record those events which led, by insensible steps to my after tale of misery: for when I would account to myself for the birth of that passion, which afterwards ruled my destiny, I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys."

p32 becomes M. Waldman’s disciple "If your wish is to become really a man of science, and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics."

p36 engrossed by his pursuit, he neglects his friends and family "I knew my silence disquieted them; and I well remembered the words of my father: 'I know that while you are pleased with yourself, you will think of us with affection, and we shall hear regularly from you. You must pardon me, if I regard any interruption in your correspondence as a proof that your other duties are equally neglected.'"

p38 Victor succeeds, and is horrified "I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardoise that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart."

p44 Elizabeth’s story about Justine Moritz "One by one, her brothers and sister died; and her mother, with the exception of her neglected daughter, was left childless. The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think the deaths of her favorites was a judgment from heaven to chastise her partiality."
p45 the end of Elizabeth’s letter "I have written myself into good spirits, dear cousin; yet I cannot conclude without again anxiously inquiring concerning your health. Dear Victor, if you are not very ill, write yourself, and make your father and all of us happy; or —— I cannot bear to think of the other side of the question; my tears already flow."
p46 Victor silently thanks his friend "Clerval, whose eyes and feelings were always quick in discerning the sensations of others, declined the subject, alleging,in excuse, his total ignorance; and the conversation took a more general turn. I thanked my friend from my heart, but I did not speak."
p48 Clerval and Elizabeth have lifted his spirits "My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity."

p49 Victor’s father writes to him that his brother, William, had been murdered "I wish to prepare you for the woeful news, but I know it is impossible; even now your eye skims over the page, to seek the words which are to convey to you the horrible tidings."
p52 Victor sees his monster and concludes he murdered his brother "A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic structure, and the deformity of its aspect, more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon to whom I had given life."
p54 Victor learns Justine Moritz is accused of the murder "No one would believe it at first; and even now Elizabeth will not be convinced, notwithstanding all the evidence."
p56 Elizabeth is distraught that Justine will be falsely convicted of the crime "Our misfortune is doubly hard to us; we have not only lost that lovely darling boy, but this poor girl, whom I sincerely love, is to be torn away be even a worse fate. If she is condemned, I never shall know joy more."