Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.
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.
More Bram Stoker Quotes
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I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
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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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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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Because if a woman’s heart was free a man might have hope.
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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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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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She has man’s brain–a brain that a man should have were he much gifted–and woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.
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I’m a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Though sympathy alone can’t alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
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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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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.
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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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And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
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This man belongs to me, I want him!
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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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Ah, 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.
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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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She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.
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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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I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!
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You cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.
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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.
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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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A brave man’s hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman’s love to hear its music.
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