The Dead travel fast.
BRAM STOKERThe Dead travel fast.
BRAM STOKEROnce again…welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
BRAM STOKEREven 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 STOKERI have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
BRAM STOKERFaith … that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.
BRAM STOKERDenn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
BRAM STOKERBecause if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
BRAM STOKERShe was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
BRAM STOKERA wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
BRAM STOKERHe means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.
BRAM STOKEREuthanasia” is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
BRAM STOKERThese infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmen give themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow.
BRAM STOKERThe blood is the life!
BRAM STOKERI will not let you go into the unknown alone.
BRAM STOKERAh, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.
BRAM STOKERBut this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!
BRAM STOKER