Quotes from Bram Stoker

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?

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.)

I promise. and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us.

Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.

Our enemy is not merely spiritual.

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.

I do not lack the courage to tell you how I feel. What I fear is how you will react to it.

Fe es aquello que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

Now that you are willing to understand, you have taken the first step to understand.

I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.

Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.

Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window.

Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!

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

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 loves you honestly, going away and looking all broken hearted, and to know that, no matter what he may say at the moment, you are passing out of his life.

We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem. get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called paprika hendl, and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.

Yo soy Drácula. Le doy la bienvenida, señor Harker, a mi casa.

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.

This will not do,' he said to himself. 'If I go on like this I shall become a crazy fool. This must stop! I promised the doctor I would not take tea. Faith, he was pretty right! My nerves must have been getting in a queer state. Funny I did not notice it. I never felt better in my life. However it is all right now, and I shall not be such a fool again.' Then he mixed himself a good stiff glass of brandy and water and resolutely sat down to his work.

Mr. Morris, you should be proud of your great state. Its reception into the Union was a precedent which may have far-reaching effects hereafter, when the Pole and the Tropics may hold alliance to the Stars and Stripes. The power of Treaty may yet prove a vast engine of enlargement, when the Monroe doctrine takes its true place as a political fable.

I am deeper in death at this moment than if the weight of an earthly grave lay heavy upon me!

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.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself; it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing