I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.
BRAM STOKERIt 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.
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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Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!
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But hush! No telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience, and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.
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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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Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
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Enter freely and of your own free will!
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Whether it is the old lady’s fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.
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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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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
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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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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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There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.
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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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