It 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.
BRAM STOKERI am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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Despair has its own calms.
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I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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There is a reason why all things are as they are.
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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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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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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky.
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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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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.
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The blood is the life!
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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.
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Despair has its own calms.
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Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?
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Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.
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I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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