Quotes from 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

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.

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!

Some of the "New Women" writers will someday start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting.

leaving the two loving hearts alone with their God.

Bila kita berhadapan dengan kengerian yang begitu hebat, barulah kita mengerti apa arti kengerian itu sebenarnya

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

We sat down on a bench within good view, and began to smoke cigars so as to attract as little attention as possible.

I want you to believe.' 'To believe what?' 'To believe in things that you cannot.

It is too great a strain for a woman to bear. I did not think so at first, but I know better now.

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. 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.

Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow.

or else the fatalities of the night would have increased manifold.

the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious celebration!

and the crash of the thunder, and the booming of the mighty billows came through the damp oblivion even louder than before.

I loved him and honoured him more than I can say, and that my latest and truest thought will be always for him.

No necesitamos pruebas. ¡No le pedimos a nadie que nos crea!

All chambers are alike to the doctor;

Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?" He raised his head and looked at me, and somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he said. "Madness were easy to bear compared with truth like this.

if looks could kill

Holding his candle so that he could read the coffin plates, and so holding it that the sperm dropped in white patches which congealed as they touched the metal, he made assurance of Lucy's coffin. Another

now a telegram from Van Helsing, whoever he may be. You will be grieved to hear that Mrs. Westenra died five days ago, and that Lucy died the day before yesterday. They were both buried today.

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.

for the first time since I have lived in it, this old house seemed like home.