Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer–both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.
BRAM STOKERIt would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
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Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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The inscrutable laws of sex have so arranged that even a timid woman is not afraid of a fierce and haughty man.
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He 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.
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He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
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A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
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I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
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