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1 " The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! "
― Kenneth Oppel , This Dark Endeavor (The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, #1)
2 " You see, when medicine works, it is blessed science, and when it fails, it is witchcraft. - Polidori "
3 " If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack.~Victor Frankenstein "
4 " There is a passion in you that scares me. "
5 " It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself. "
6 " No, indeed, 'pig' is very expressive. And an excellent description of a fellow who flirts with his brother's beloved. "
7 " Beyond the lake, over the mountains, the clouds were illuminated from within by a brilliant stutter of lightning, and in that split second Elizabeth and I were etched against the sky. "
8 " Konrad had gone to the New World without me, and no matter how fast I ran westward, how close I kept to the sunsets, I would never catch up with him now. "
9 " We all knew no respectable physician would remove my fingers just for the asking, and we had no time anyway. "
10 " What do you make of him?" I asked Elizabeth. "Apart from the fact he's clearly insane?""What can he learn from Konrad's blood?" I said. "Except that he needs it in his body to live!""There is something ghoulish about it.""He's like a vampyre, "
11 " Behind us I saw the water, still welling up from the tunnel, curving round in a frothing serpentine torrent to plunge down the other descending passage. For a moment we all sat there and watched, numb and exhausted. "
12 " Do you worry it is sinful?" I asked.She took a breath. "No," she said firmly. "God is the creator, and anything on this earth is here by His permission. I cannot think He minds if we use His creations - only how. For good or ill. What we seek is for good, so I will not worry about it. "
