Theme: love
Frankenstein / Transformation Through Love
how sincerely you did love me, and endeavour to elevate my mind until it was on a level with your own. A selfish pursuit had cramped and narrowed me, ...
Dracula / Sacrifice and Loyalty
No word shall be lost; and in the good time I shall give them back to you. It’s a hard thing I ask, but you will do it, will you not, for Lucy’s sake?...
Dracula / Pledge of Love
Then he took my hand in his, and oh, Lucy, it was the first time he took _his wife’s_ hand, and said that it was the dearest thing in all the wide wor...
Frankenstein / Internal Conflict
Interpret my words with candour and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity.” I listened to my father in silence and remained for some...
Dracula / Paternal Loss
Some may not think it so sad for us, but we had both come to so love him that it really seems as though we had lost a father. I never knew either fath...
Pride and Prejudice / Familial Conflict
Darcy should hear the first raptures of her joy, than the first vehemence of her disapprobation. Darcy rise also and follow him, and her agitation on ...
Dracula / Loves Complexities
Being proposed to is all very nice and all that sort of thing, but it isn’t at all a happy thing when you have to see a poor fellow, whom you know lov...
Pride and Prejudice / Longing and Separation
They were confined for the evening at different tables; and she had nothing to hope, but that his eyes were so often turned towards her side of the ro...
Frankenstein / Moral Ambivalence
Felix visited the grate at night and made known to the prisoner his intentions in his favour. The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle th...
Frankenstein / Marriage and Society
The pretty Miss Mansfield has already received the congratulatory visits on her approaching marriage with a young Englishman, John Melbourne, Esq. You...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Significance of Trifles
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. there has been an enclosure here!” “Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring.”...
Frankenstein / Fate and Love
And then I thought again of his words—“_I will be with you on your wedding-night._” That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfilment of my destiny....
Frankenstein / Possession and Attachment
The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight. On the evening previo...
Pride and Prejudice / Social Class Conflict
It was the favourite wish of _his_ mother, as well as of hers. While in their cradles we planned the union; and now, at the moment when the wishes of ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Love and Loss
My family itself is so small that it will not take me long to describe it. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I had to love. I could not be...
Frankenstein / Love and Turmoil
While we love, while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing—what c...
Frankenstein / Emotional Resilience
Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm jo...
Pride and Prejudice / Emotional Conflict
In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike, she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man’s affection, and though her intentions did not vary...
Dracula / Secrets and Acknowledgments
I have copied out the words on my typewriter, and none other need now hear your heart beat, as I did.” “No one need ever know, shall ever know,” I sai...
Dracula / Consciousness and Death
It will be much difference, mark me, whether she dies conscious or in her sleep. Wake that poor boy, and let him come and see the last; he trusts us, ...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Greed and Deception
His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but there are women in whom the love of...
Pride and Prejudice / Sisterly Confessions
I am afraid you will be angry.” “My dearest sister, now be, _be_ serious. Let me know everything that I am to know without delay. Will you tell me how...