Quotes from Bram Stoker

She came at once, after saying pleasantly to Mr Renfield: 'Good-bye, and I hope I may see you often, under auspices pleasanter to yourself', to which, to my astonishment, he replied: 'Good-bye, my dear. I pray God I may never see your sweet face again. May He bless and keep you!

And women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as they should be.

Ich treibe in einem Meer der Verwunderung. Ich zweifle; ich bange; ich denke seltsame Dinge, die ich meiner eigenen Seele nicht einzugestehen wage.

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.

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere modernity

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.

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!

The common people know me, and I am master. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for. I

Ask me nothings as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all questions.

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

I must regret that an attack of gout, from which malady I am a constant sufferer

Fe: Es una facultad que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas.

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.

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.

This time there could be no error, for the man was close to me, and I could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror!

And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere modernity cannot kill. Later:

The strangest figures we saw were the Slovaks, who were more barbarian than the rest, with their big cow-boy hats, great baggy dirty-white trousers, white linen shirts, and enormous heavy leather belts, nearly a foot wide, all studded over with brass nails. They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches. They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing. On

Friend John, to you with so much of experience already—and you, too, dear Madam Mina, that are young—here is a lesson: do not fear ever to think.

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.

We learn from failure, not from success! When

You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked

When all was over, I could see how much Arthur was weakened. I dressed the wound and took his arm to bring him away, when Van Helsing spoke without turning round, the man seems to have eyes in the back of his head, The brave lover, I think, deserve another kiss, which he shall have presently. And as he had now finished his operation, he adjusted the pillow to the patient's head. As

Lucy Westenra, but yet how changed. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.

When I told Mrs. Westenra that Dr. Van Helsing had directed that I should sit up with her, she almost pooh-poohed the idea, pointing out her daughter's renewed strength and excellent spirits. I was firm, however, and made preparations for my long vigil. When her maid had prepared her for the night I came in, having in the meantime had supper, and took a seat by the bedside. She