Bram Stoker, Dracula
"I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me."
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"I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"There is 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, Dracula
"These friends - and he laid his hand on some of the books - have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure. Through them I have come to know your great England; and to know her is to love her. I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"And when he had crossed the bridge, the phantoms came to meet him."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"preserve my sanity, for to this I am reduced. Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past. 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. If I be sane, then surely it is maddening to think that of all the foul things that lurk in this hateful place."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"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, Dracula
"It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"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, Dracula
"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, Dracula
"I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
". . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"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, Dracula
"for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready"
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here."
Bram Stoker, Dracula
"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, Dracula
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