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41 " A hand grabbed for me, grasping blindly through the icy water. The hand that has reached out to me as a child, that pulled me from misery and into a life of a different captivity. The hand that, guided by his brilliant mind, could accomplish delicate and sensitive operations that defied the fundamentals laws of life and death.That hand would take my body and make it his own. Victor would save me. And I wanted to live! Desperately. As I always had. For a moment I let myself consider it.But if I lived, I would still die, and I would never have control of myself again. "
― Kiersten White , The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
42 " He lifted my chin and fixed my eyes with his. 'You are mine. You have been mine since the first day we met. You will be mine forever. My absence should not have caused you to doubt the firmness and steadfastness of my attachment to you. It will never fade. "
43 " His lips were soft and dry. If Justine's had felt like a butterfly on my cheek - a moment of surprising grace - Victor's were like a contract between us. A promise that I was his, and he would keep me safe.I kissed him back throwing my arms around his neck and pulling him closer to sign my own name to the contract between us. "
44 " I entered my old home like a thief in the night. I was there to steal the life of its heir. I set my feet on the richly polished wood floor on which generations of Frankensteins had trod. My soaked skirts dripped a steady puddle of water that would damage the wood if left unmopped. As a child, I would have cleaned it immediately, wishing to leave no trace of myself and no opening for censure.I leaned over and wrung my hair all over the floor. "
45 " Everything I had known of him, everything we had shared, rose like the dead before me, rotted through to show the horror of what festered beneath the skin. "
46 " Why is it, I wonder, that I can find beauty in this? What is it about your hair - a natural phenomenon, one that holds no inherent value or purpose - that triggers happiness in me?''You are so strange.' I took his hand and turned it to kiss his palm. "