Quotes from Bram Stoker

These companions', and he laid his hand on some of the books- 'have been good friends to me.

When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat.

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!

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.

How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you'll have to deal with me. The fair girl, with a laugh of ribald coquetry, turned to answer him. You yourself never loved. You never love! On this the other women joined, and such a mirthless, hard, soulless laughter rang through the room that it almost made me faint to hear. It seemed like the pleasure of fiends.

Ah, nosotros hombres y mujeres somos como cuerdas en medio de diferentes fuerzas que nos tiran de diferentes rumbos.

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.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads, to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams. Well, here I am tonight, hoping for sleep, and lying like Ophelia in the play, with 'virgin crants and maiden strewments.' I never liked garlic before, but tonight it is delightful!...

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. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me! 7

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.

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!

It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.

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!

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.

I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don't know how I should be able to get on without it.

I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body.

I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.

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

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.

I go no further than to say that she might be UnDead.

I shall tell you. My thesis is this, I want you to believe. To believe what? To believe in things that you cannot.

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

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.

Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.