Quotes from Bram Stoker

All Lucy's loveliness had come back to her in death, and the hours that had passed, instead of leaving traces of 'decay's effacing fingers', had but restored the beauty of life, till positively I could not believe my eyes that I was looking at a corpse. The Professor looked sternly grave. He had not loved

work with heavy heart and feel oh so lonely when I want all help and courage that may be!

He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part, in which he was officially interested, of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding. He

A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart. I

They say that people who are near death die generally at the change to dawn or at the turn of the tide. Anyone

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! The whole room behind me was displayed; but there was no sign of a man in it, except myself.

passed to my room and went to bed, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. Despair has its own calms. 31

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one.

you will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark. Nay, the end, the very end, may give you a gleam of peace.

Pues la vida, después de todo, es sólo una espera por alguna otra cosa además de la que estamos haciendo; y la muerte es todo sobre lo que verdaderamente podemos depender.

Finally she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting. It was all very ridiculous, but I did not feel comfortable.

And then he cried, till he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does. I

a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The combination is a dreadful one.

Cómo escapar de esta espantosa esclavitud de noche, tinieblas y terrores?

I agreed heartily with him

He had evidently forgotten all about the dark stranger

the house which Dracula had bought was the very next one to my own.

La creíamos muerta cuando dormía, y dormida cuando murió.

The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy about the waist.

If I could have as strong a cause as my poor mad friend there, a good, unselfish cause to make me work, that would be indeed happiness.

At the worst it can only be death, and a man's death is not a calf's, and the dreaded Hereafter may still be open to me. God help me in my task! Goodbye, Mina, if I fail. Goodbye, my faithful friend and second father. Goodbye, all, and last of all Mina! Same

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the devils at once, it matters not. We must fight him all the same. He went to the hall door for his bag, and together we went up to Lucy's room.

15 MAY.-Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion.