Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley Quotes

“Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

“Victor: What does it feel like to be in love?

Creature: It feels like everything is boiling over and spilling out of me; it feels like my lungs are on fire, and my heart is a hammer, and I feel like I can do anything...I feel like I can do anything in the world...”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

“The more I read, the more I learn, the more I discover that I know nothing.”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

“I should be Adam. God was proud of Adam. But Satan's the one I sympathise with. For I was cast out, like Satan, though I did no wrong. And when I see others content, I feel the bile rise in my throat, and it tastes like Satan's bile.”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

“Because with all that I read, all that I learn, I discover how much I do not know. Ideas batter me like hailstones. Questions but no answers. Who am I? Where am I from? Do I have a family?”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

“How does it feel? To be in love?' 'It feels like all the life is bubbling up in me and spilling from my mouth, it feels like my lungs are on fire and my heart is a hammer, it feels like I can do anything in the world!”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

“I do not like inconsistent! Why must it be so?”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

“De Lacey: It is night in the Garden of Eden. Do you see the moon?

Creature: There. There it is.

De Lacey: Describe it to me.

Creature: Solitary.”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley

“Yet you'd kill me if you could. Why, you have just tried! So why is your killing justified, and mine is not?”
― Nick Dear, Frankenstein, Based on the Novel by Mary Shelley