We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
BRAM STOKERWe are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
BRAM STOKERI want you to believe…to believe in things that you cannot.
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.
BRAM STOKERAh, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us in different directions.
BRAM STOKERNature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
BRAM STOKERWe 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 STOKEROh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
BRAM STOKERAnd yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
BRAM STOKERI suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.
BRAM STOKERThere is a reason why all things are as they are.
BRAM STOKERSleep has no place it can call its own.
BRAM STOKERI want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
BRAM STOKERAnd so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
BRAM STOKEROh, 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?
BRAM STOKERHow blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.
BRAM STOKERLet me tell you, my friend, that there are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards
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