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There will be pain for us all, but it will not be all pain, nor will this pain be the last. We and you too, you most of all, dear boy, will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all will be well! -- Bram Stoker
It often happened that after death faces become softened and even resolved into their youthful beauty, that this was especially so when death had been preceded by any acute or prolonged suffering. -- Bram Stoker
And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again. -- Bram Stoker
I wish I could comfort all who suffer from the heart. Will you let me be your friend, and will you come to me for comfort if you need it? -- Bram Stoker
July.
I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time. -- Bram Stoker
I know you well enough, you are the old fool Van Helsing. I wish you would take yourself and your idiotic brain theories somewhere else. Damn all thick-headed Dutchmen! -- Bram Stoker
That it is in trouble and trial that our faith is tested. That we must keep on trusting, and that God will aid us up to the end. The end! Oh my God! What end? ... To work! To work! -- Bram Stoker
But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires. -- Bram Stoker
The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires. -- Bram Stoker
Later.
It is done. My will is made, and all complete. Mina if she survive is my sole heir. If it should not be so, then the others who have been so good to us shall have remainder. -- Bram Stoker
She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she thought you took too much strong tea. In fact she wants me to advise you if possible to give up the tea and the very late hours. -- Bram Stoker
You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked, -- Bram Stoker
Tell me about it dear; for there is nothing which interests you which will not be dear to me -- Bram Stoker
I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. -- Bram Stoker
It may be ordained that we have many nights and days to follow, if full of peril, but we must go on, and from no danger shall we shrink. -- Bram Stoker
I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
should be master of me. -- Bram Stoker
And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper. -- Bram Stoker
Some of the 'New Women' writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the 'New Woman' won't condescend in future to accept. She will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it too! -- Bram Stoker
You must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears amd alarms. -- Bram Stoker
These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen
give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees
no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. -- Bram Stoker
God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice as yet; for what we wish for at the moment may be our undoings. - Van Helsing, Dracula -- Bram Stoker
Here I am, sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter, and writing in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last. -- Bram Stoker
Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. -- Bram Stoker
...as to try to interest me about the less carnivora, when I know of what is before me."
"I see," I said. "You want big things that you can make your teeth meet in? How would you like to breakfast on an elephant? -- Bram Stoker
You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to interest me, about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me. -- Bram Stoker
Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't with eyebrows like yours. -- Bram Stoker
When Mrs. Harker came in to see me this afternoon she wasn't the same. It was like tea after the teapot has been watered. -- Bram Stoker
So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist - and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish. -- Bram Stoker
Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow. My dear, I'm going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come. -- Bram Stoker
On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: 'The dead travel fast. -- Bram Stoker
Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe. -- Bram Stoker
How many of us begin a new record with each day of our lives? -- Bram Stoker
All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world. -- Bram Stoker
She has man's brain
a brain that a man should have were he much gifted
and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination. -- Bram Stoker
But just then the moon, sailing through the black clouds, appeared behind the jagged crest of a beetling, pine-clad rock, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves, with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair. They were -- Bram Stoker
I felt that it was getting very late indeed, but I did not say anything, for I felt under obligation to meet my host's wishes in ever way. -- Bram Stoker
Miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the clock. -- Bram Stoker
Then, as he is criminal he is selfish. -- Bram Stoker
I shall put a bold face on, and if I do feel weepy, he shall never see it. I suppose it is one of the lessons that we poor women have to learn ... -- Bram Stoker
...the passing gleams of the moonlight between the scudding clouds crossing and passing, [are] like the gladness and sorrow of a man's life. -- Bram Stoker
We've all become god's madmen, all of us. -- Bram Stoker
There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration. -- Bram Stoker
But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you. -- Bram Stoker
Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most. -- Bram Stoker
And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when it is properly applied; and what might it do when basely used. -- Bram Stoker
A tall man, thin and pale, with high nose and teeth so white, and eyes that seem to be burning. That he be all in black, except that he have a hat of straw which suit not him or the time. -- Bram Stoker
My dearest Mina, Oceans of love and millions of kisses, -- Bram Stoker
For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me. -- Bram Stoker
Whilst I live on here there is but one thing to hope for, that I may not go mad, if, indeed, I be not mad already. -- Bram Stoker
The attendant thinks it is some sudden form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look out for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The combination is a dreadful one. At nine o'clock I visited -- Bram Stoker
How I slept, with that dear, good Dr. Seward watching me. And tonight I shall not fear to sleep, since he is close at hand and within call. Thank everybody for being so good to me. Thank God! Goodnight Arthur. DR. -- Bram Stoker
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? -- Bram Stoker
What I saw appalled me. I felt my hair rise like bristles on the back of my neck, and my heart seemed to stand still. -- Bram Stoker
We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship. -- Bram Stoker
At the worst it can only be death, and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina! Same -- Bram Stoker
Oceans of love and millions of kisses, and may you soon be in your own home with your husband. -- Bram Stoker
May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy? -- Bram Stoker
And, to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died, a gallant gentleman. -- Bram Stoker
I ain't afraid of dyin', not a bit, only I don't want to die if I can help it. -- Bram Stoker
I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths. -- Bram Stoker
Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble? -- Bram Stoker
Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on? -- Bram Stoker
Well, Professor, I know you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit." "Perhaps -- Bram Stoker
He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause. -- Bram Stoker
One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides one old man. Ah, yes, I know, friend John. I am not blind! I love you all the more for it! Now go. In -- Bram Stoker
I go no further than to say that she might be UnDead. -- Bram Stoker
I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing. -- Bram Stoker
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors. -- Bram Stoker
I am too miserable, too low-spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself, and I would not care if I heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death. -- Bram Stoker
I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. -- Bram Stoker
What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy's death as any of us, but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed. -- Bram Stoker
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! -- Bram Stoker
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. -- Bram Stoker
The poor wretch was doubtless torturing himself, after the manner of the insane, with needless thoughts of pain. -- Bram Stoker
I thought yesterday would never end. There was over me a yearning for sleep in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must now be for the better. -- Bram Stoker
The attendant thinks it is some form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The combination is a dreadful one. -- Bram Stoker
A man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. -- Bram Stoker
I bear messages which will make both your ears tingle. -- Bram Stoker
Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds ... true love? -- Bram Stoker
I want to cut off her head and take out her heart. -- Bram Stoker
It was almost impossible to believe that the things which we had seen with -- Bram Stoker
I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills. -- Bram Stoker
It all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end. Everything that one does seems, no matter how right it may be, to bring on the very thing which is most to be deplored. -- Bram Stoker
He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part, in which he was officially interested, of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding. He -- Bram Stoker
No man knows where the Castle of King Death is. All men and women, boys and girls, and even little wee children should so live that when they have to enter the Castle and see the grim King, they may not fear to behold his face. -- Bram Stoker
There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely. -- Bram Stoker
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights. -- Bram Stoker
I agreed heartily with him, -- Bram Stoker
Leaving the two loving hearts alone with their God. -- Bram Stoker
It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I did not think so at first, but I know better now. -- Bram Stoker
Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles, and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. -- Bram Stoker
He had evidently forgotten all about the dark stranger, -- Bram Stoker
But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together. -- Bram Stoker
The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch -- Bram Stoker
My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way.. -- Bram Stoker
Festina lente may well be his motto -- Bram Stoker
When his head had disappeared, I leaned out to try and see more, but without avail. -- Bram Stoker
A sort of journal which I can write in whenever I feel inclined. I do not suppose there will be much interest to other people; but it is not intended for them. -- Bram Stoker
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. -- Bram Stoker
Ask me nothings as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all questions. -- Bram Stoker
Good boy," said Dr. Van Helsing. "Brave boy. Quincey is all man. God bless him for it. -- Bram Stoker
We sat down on a bench within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as to attract as little attention as possible. -- Bram Stoker
There must be no concealment," she said. "Alas! We have had too much already. And besides there is nothing in all the world that can give me more pain than I have already endured, than I suffer now! -- Bram Stoker
I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart. -- Bram Stoker
I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome ... -- Bram Stoker
You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your toilet. -- Bram Stoker
I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me. -- Bram Stoker
I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was "mamaliga", and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call "impletata". (Mem.,get recipe for this also.) -- Bram Stoker
We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways. -- Bram Stoker
Feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had
come which must end in its undoing, -- Bram Stoker
Count comes from a wolf country, and it may be that he shall get there before us. I propose that we add Winchesters to our armament. I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort around. -- Bram Stoker
Take me away from all this Death. -- Bram Stoker
Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood. -- Bram Stoker
How can he" - and he pointed at me with the same look and gesture as that with which once he pointed me out to his class, on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he never fails to remind me of - "know anything of a young ladies? -- Bram Stoker
He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please. -- Bram Stoker
I stood beside Van Helsing, and said;-
"Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!"
He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:-
"Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning! -- Bram Stoker
The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man. -- Bram Stoker
How well the man reasoned. Lunatics always do within their own scope. -- Bram Stoker
the house which Dracula had bought was the very next one to my own. -- Bram Stoker
Oh! If such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, what a force for good might he not be in this old world of ours. -- Bram Stoker
But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. -- Bram Stoker
So my days go on, and grow to weeks and months. So will they grow to years, should life so long remain an unwelcome guest within me: for what is man without hope? and is not hope nigh dead within this weary breast? -- Bram Stoker
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. -- Bram Stoker
Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man. -- Bram Stoker
By all you hold sacred, by all you hold dear, by your love that is lost, by your hope that lives, for the sake of the Almighty, take me out of this and save my soul from guilt! -- Bram Stoker
i would rather be an angel than God -- Bram Stoker
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine. -- Bram Stoker
He bowed in a courtly way as he replied: I am Dracula. and I bid you welcome, Mr Harker, to my house. Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest. -- Bram Stoker
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. -- Bram Stoker
It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill. -- Bram Stoker
in many ways the UnDead are strong. He have always -- Bram Stoker
Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead. -- Bram Stoker
I will not let you go into the unknown alone. -- Bram Stoker
She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death. -- Bram Stoker
Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess -- Bram Stoker
give a guest everything and leave him to do as he likes. -- Bram Stoker
She threw herself on her knees, and raising up her hands, cried the same words in tones which wrung my heart. Then she tore her hair and beat her breast, and abandoned herself to all the violences of extravagant emotion. -- Bram Stoker
When I came in he threw himself on his knees before me and implored me to let him have a cat; that his salvation depended upon it. -- Bram Stoker
We learn from failure, not from success! -- Bram Stoker
Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky. -- Bram Stoker
The waves rose in growing fury, each over-topping its fellow, till in a very few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster. -- Bram Stoker
For the dead travel fast. -- Bram Stoker
Passed to my room and went to bed, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. Despair has its own calms. 31 -- Bram Stoker
Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue. -- Bram Stoker
I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. -- Bram Stoker
Did he get his brain fever, and then write all those terrible things, or had he some cause for it all? I suppose I shall never know, for I dare not open the subject to him. And yet that man we saw yesterday! He -- Bram Stoker
It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. -- Bram Stoker
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part. -- Bram Stoker
I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore. -- Bram Stoker
In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves. -- Bram Stoker
Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same. -- Bram Stoker
Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner! -- Bram Stoker
There, on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white ... something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell. -- Bram Stoker
She had been to a tea-party with an antediluvian monster, and that they had been waited on by up-to-date men-servants. -- Bram Stoker
My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. -- Bram Stoker
Do not fear to think even the most not-probable. -- Bram Stoker
Can you tell me why, when other spiders die small and soon, that one great spider lived for centuries in the tower of the old Spanish church and grew and grew, till, on descending, he could drink the oil of all the church lamps? -- Bram Stoker
I dined on what they called "robber steak"--bits of bacon, onion, and beef, seasoned with red pepper, and strung on sticks, and roasted over the fire, in simple style of the London cat's meat! -- Bram Stoker
If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me. -- Bram Stoker
He will not admit anything, and down faces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views. -- Bram Stoker
This man belongs to me, I want him! -- Bram Stoker
I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead. -- Bram Stoker
Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me! -- Bram Stoker
I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would write, if it were only a single line -- Bram Stoker
No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart. -- Bram Stoker
and the crash of the thunder, and the booming of the mighty billows came through the damp oblivion even louder than before. -- Bram Stoker
I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count's voice saying to me, "Good morning." I started, for it amazed me that I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me. -- Bram Stoker
Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pulls us in different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until the strain becomes too great, and we break. -- Bram Stoker
I promise. and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us. -- Bram Stoker
We learn of great things by little experiences. -- Bram Stoker
It is in trouble and trial that our faith is tested. That we must keep on trusting, and that God will aid us up to the end. The end! Oh my God! What end? ... -- Bram Stoker
The blood is the life! -- Bram Stoker
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves. -- Bram Stoker
The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told. -- Bram Stoker
When, however, the conviction had come to me that I was helpless I sat down quietly, as quietly as I have ever done anything in my life, and began to think over what was best to be done. I am thinking still, and as yet have come to no definite conclusion. -- Bram Stoker
I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land.--Your friend, Dracula. -- Bram Stoker
why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? -- Bram Stoker
For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you? -- Bram Stoker
My lamp seemed to be of little effect in the brilliant moonlight, but I was glad to have it with me, for there was a dread loneliness in the place which chilled my heart and made my nerves tremble. -- Bram Stoker
Jonathan's eyes closed, and he went quickly into a sleep, with his head on my shoulder. -- Bram Stoker
Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results today! Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect, the knowledge of the brain? -- Bram Stoker
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men
even if there are monsters in it. -- Bram Stoker
For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same. -- Bram Stoker
The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of. -- Bram Stoker
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or grass wave or rustle so ominously. Never did bough creak so mysteriously, and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night. -- Bram Stoker
The devils at once, it matters not. We must fight him all the same. He went to the hall door for his bag, and together we went up to Lucy's room. -- Bram Stoker
Ah,it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not,then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs,which think themselves new; and which are yet but old,which pretend to be young like fine ladys at the opera. -- Bram Stoker
It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong - although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by - come back to us with bitterness. -- Bram Stoker
And women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be. -- Bram Stoker
And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill. Later: -- Bram Stoker
We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success! -- Bram Stoker
I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body. -- Bram Stoker
I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there. -- Bram Stoker
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The knowledge may help us to defeat him! -- Bram Stoker
Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion. I -- Bram Stoker
My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth. -- Bram Stoker
The blood is life... and it shall be mine! -- Bram Stoker
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands. -- Bram Stoker
The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul. -- Bram Stoker
The Bride maidens rejoice the eyes that wait the coming of the bride. But when the bride draweth nigh, then the maidens shine not to the eyes that are filled. -- Bram Stoker
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years. The latter are only helpful in the recurrence of opportunities; in the possibilities of repetition. -- Bram Stoker
presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of the contract. I -- Bram Stoker
Could you look, sir, into my heart, you would approve to the full the sentiments which animate me. Nay, more, you would count me amongst the best and truest of your friends. -- Bram Stoker
Even his stalwart manhood seemed to have shrunk somewhat under -- Bram Stoker
And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet! -- Bram Stoker
It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help. -- Bram Stoker
The horses are nearly ready, and we are soon off. We ride to death of some one. God alone knows who, or where, or what, or when, or how it may be... -- Bram Stoker
Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured ... -- Bram Stoker
I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will I trust, excuse me that I do not join you, but I have dined already, and I do not sup. -- Bram Stoker
Once again ... welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring. -- Bram Stoker
My only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and mystery which seemed closing around me. -- Bram Stoker
I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without it. -- Bram Stoker
She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. -- Bram Stoker
but there was a queer, acrid smell about. -- Bram Stoker
Mina and I fear to be idle, so we have been over all the diaries again and again. Somehow, although the reality seem greater each time, the pain and the fear seem less. -- Bram Stoker
I suppose there is something in a women's nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood. -- Bram Stoker
We shall tell you all in good time. We are men and are able to bear, -- Bram Stoker
She said, Promise me that you will not tell me anything of the plans formed for the campaign against the Count. Not by word, or inference, or implication, not at any time whilst this remains to me! -- Bram Stoker
Enter freely and of your own free will! -- Bram Stoker
Ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling. -- Bram Stoker
I have crossed oceans of time to find you. -- Bram Stoker
What sort of grim adventure was it on which I had embarked? -- Bram Stoker
There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA. -- Bram Stoker
There is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invaders. -- Bram Stoker
Sleep has no place it can call its own. -- Bram Stoker
Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh. -- Bram Stoker
the diary of a doctor who -- Bram Stoker
He removed the flowers and lifted the silk handkerchief from her throat. As he did so he started back and I could hear his ejaculation, "Mein Gott!" as it was smothered in his throat. I -- Bram Stoker
Water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless. -- Bram Stoker
The Dead travel fast. -- Bram Stoker
I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up. -- Bram Stoker
We need have no secrets amongst us. Working together and with absolute trust, we can surely be stronger than if some of us were in the dark. -- Bram Stoker
It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world. -- Bram Stoker
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance. -- Bram Stoker
The captain swore polyglot -very polyglot- polyglot with bloom and blood. -- Bram Stoker
His very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood of him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep him from breaking down. -- Bram Stoker
A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear it. -- Bram Stoker
have a dim half remembrance of long, anxious times of waiting and fearing, darkness in which there was not even the pain of hope to make present distress more poignant. -- Bram Stoker
Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise. -- Bram Stoker
I suppose that nature works on such a hopeful basis that we believe against ourselves that things will be as they ought to be, not as we should know they will be. -- Bram Stoker
more I have seen the count go out in his lizard fashion. -- Bram Stoker
As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. -- Bram Stoker
And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him. -- Bram Stoker
Despair has its own calms. -- Bram Stoker
For I determined that if Death came he should find me ready -- Bram Stoker
You yourself never loved; you never love!
Yes, I too can love; you yourselves can tell it from the past. Is it not so? -- Bram Stoker
DRACULA A Mystery Story by Bram Stoker -- Bram Stoker
It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import. -- Bram Stoker
Does that city create its citizens, or is the city only a dream of its citizens. -- Bram Stoker
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us. A personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea. -- Bram Stoker
...his open nostril quivered with intent. -- Bram Stoker
He came back full of life and hope and determination. -- Bram Stoker
She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect. -- Bram Stoker
Well, the devil may work against us for all he's worth, but God sends us men when we want them. -- Bram Stoker
Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer
both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams. -- Bram Stoker
Friend John, it does rejoice me unspeakable that she is no more to be pained, no more to be worried with our terrible things. Though we shall much miss her help, it is better so. -- Bram Stoker
Before. He wore a look of stern sadness and infinite pity. "As I expected," he murmured, with that hissing inspiration -- Bram Stoker
Stepping forth to replenish it, for now the snow came in flying sweeps -- Bram Stoker
And the young do not tell themselves to the young, but to the old, like me, who have known so many sorrows and the causes of them. -- Bram Stoker
I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him. -- Bram Stoker
His face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing. -- Bram Stoker
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. -- Bram Stoker
She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment! -- Bram Stoker
Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope. -- Bram Stoker
The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East; the most western of splendid bridges over the Danube, which is here of noble width and depth, took us among the traditions of Turkish rule. -- Bram Stoker
But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame! -- Bram Stoker
The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message. -- Bram Stoker
You English have a saying which is close to my heart, for its spirit is that which rules our boyars: Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. -- Bram Stoker
Alone with the dead, I dare not go out! -- Bram Stoker
If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of. -- Bram Stoker
All men are mad in some way or the other; -- Bram Stoker
For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. -- Bram Stoker
He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow. -- Bram Stoker
31 October.
Still hurrying along. The day has come, -- Bram Stoker
We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be. -- Bram Stoker
Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read. -- Bram Stoker
Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly -- Bram Stoker
I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats. -- Bram Stoker
Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective? -- Bram Stoker
And if it had not been that we have crossed his path he would be yet, he may be yet if we fail, the father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead through Death, not Life. -- Bram Stoker
A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed! -- Bram Stoker
Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker -- Bram Stoker
Clasps his laps around minas throat, pieces her skin and drinks her blood. He then forces her into an act that binds her to the vampire for eternity -- Bram Stoker
They were made by Miss Lucy! -- Bram Stoker
I want you to believe ... to believe in things that you cannot. -- Bram Stoker
hardly had my knife severed the head of each, before the whole body began to melt away and crumble into its native dust, as though the death that should have come centuries ago had at last assert himself and say at once and loud, "I am here! -- Bram Stoker
Oh, yes! They, like the lotus flower, make your trouble forgotten. It smell so like the waters of Lethe, and of that fountain of youth that the Conquistadores sought for in the Floridas, and find him all too late. Whilst -- Bram Stoker
The man is an undeveloped homicidal maniac. -- Bram Stoker
Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me. -- Bram Stoker
Euthanasia is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it. -- Bram Stoker
I feel myself quite wild with excitement. -- Bram Stoker
I am Dracula;and i bid you welcome,Mr. Harker,to my house. -- Bram Stoker
It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? - Jonathan Harker -- Bram Stoker
:...I love you with all the moods and tenses of the verb... -- Bram Stoker
Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual. -- Bram Stoker
But now I am glad that I went into detail from the first, for there is something so strange about this place and all in it that I cannot but feel uneasy. -- Bram Stoker
Or else the fatalities of the night would have increased manifold. -- Bram Stoker
Then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious. CHAPTER -- Bram Stoker
Find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest -- Bram Stoker
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! -- Bram Stoker
He bore himself through it like a moral Viking. -- Bram Stoker
There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand. -- Bram Stoker
Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul? -- Bram Stoker
Our enemy is not merely spiritual. -- Bram Stoker
All I could see was the warm grey of quickening sky. -- Bram Stoker
Man cannot be trusted unless they are watched -- Bram Stoker
I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me. -- Bram Stoker
When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. -- Bram Stoker
Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable. -- Bram Stoker
For, though sympathy can't alter facts, it can make them more bearable. -- Bram Stoker
The time is come, I fear, when I must open the parcel, and know what is written. -- Bram Stoker
And then he cried, till he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does. I -- Bram Stoker
I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. despair has it's own calms. -- Bram Stoker
Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings. -- Bram Stoker
There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples. -- Bram Stoker
Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!" The -- Bram Stoker
And then there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me. -- Bram Stoker
I desire it much, nay I will take no refusal. -- Bram Stoker
Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. -- Bram Stoker
This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more. -- Bram Stoker
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious! -- Bram Stoker
Truly there is no such thing as finality. -- Bram Stoker
Still, your mind works true, and argues not a particulari ad universale. -- Bram Stoker
The traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and -- Bram Stoker
We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. -- Bram Stoker
It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. -- Bram Stoker
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. -- Bram Stoker
I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does. -- Bram Stoker
You will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end, the very end, may give you a gleam of peace. -- Bram Stoker
As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life. -- Bram Stoker
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century. -- Bram Stoker
There is a reason why all things are as they are. -- Bram Stoker
Bats usually wheel about, but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own. -- Bram Stoker
I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power. -- Bram Stoker
Unconscious cerebration was doing its work, even with the lunatic. -- Bram Stoker
When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident or a series of accidents can balance it. -- Bram Stoker
What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man? -- Bram Stoker
There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards. -- Bram Stoker
gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I -- Bram Stoker
