We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
BRAM STOKERHe may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
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We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear–and a voracious mouth to swallow.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?
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The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
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We are able to learn from a failure, but perhaps not much from a success!
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It is ever thus that the things which we do wrong – although they may seem little at the time, and though from the hardness of our hearts we pass them lightly by – come back to us with bitterness.
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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For me, I say no, but then I am old, and life, with his sunshine, his fair places, his song of birds, his music and his love, lie far behind. You others are young. Some have seen sorrow, but there are fair days yet in store. What say you?
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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