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LAURA POWELL Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.
EDGAR ALLAN POE It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
BRAM STOKER There are vampires. They are real, they are of our time, and they are here, close by, stalking us as...
NICKY RAVEN Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinis...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always be...
RAY WISE Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.
A. ALVAREZ We learn from failure, not from success!
BRAM STOKER There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all l...
BRAM STOKER But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.
BRAM STOKER If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the fut...
BRAM STOKER There is a reason why all things are as they are.
BRAM STOKER I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles...
BRAM STOKER Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you b...
BRAM STOKER Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
BRAM STOKER Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.
BRAM STOKER There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
BRAM STOKER No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning...
BRAM STOKER Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from h...
BRAM STOKER I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart ha...
BRAM STOKER I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to m...
BRAM STOKER Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in ...
BRAM STOKER Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
BRAM STOKER Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker
BRAM STOKER Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)
BRAM STOKER A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
BRAM STOKER It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, al...
BRAM STOKER I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
BRAM STOKER How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that ...
BRAM STOKER There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the pro...
BRAM STOKER I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome . . .
BRAM STOKER He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to com...
BRAM STOKER She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good...
BRAM STOKER And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and...
BRAM STOKER Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, t...
BRAM STOKER Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix...
BRAM STOKER Enter freely and of your own free will!
BRAM STOKER I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced dur...
BRAM STOKER Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you m...
BRAM STOKER Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she ...
BRAM STOKER I have been so long master
that I would be master still, or at least that none other
shoul...
BRAM STOKER There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very ma...
BRAM STOKER Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if...
BRAM STOKER Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farming house far down the road - a long, agonized wailing,a...
BRAM STOKER These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How the...
BRAM STOKER In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.
BRAM STOKER Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and trouble...
BRAM STOKER Take then good note of it. Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts ...
BRAM STOKER Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.
BRAM STOKER There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive.
And as she arched...
BRAM STOKER For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all th...
BRAM STOKER Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That th...
BRAM STOKER Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says...
BRAM STOKER I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry h...
BRAM STOKER The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his e...
BRAM STOKER Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who wou...
BRAM STOKER Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't; you couldn't wi...
BRAM STOKER Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some peo...
BRAM STOKER No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.
BRAM STOKER I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
BRAM STOKER How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.
BRAM STOKER Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessn...
BRAM STOKER I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot.
BRAM STOKER Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment ...
BRAM STOKER Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men belie...
BRAM STOKER Nature in one of her beneficient moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own ter...
BRAM STOKER It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when K...
BRAM STOKER We learn of great things by little experiences.
BRAM STOKER I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp ...
BRAM STOKER . . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination cou...
BRAM STOKER I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to ...
BRAM STOKER Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the tr...
BRAM STOKER Do not fear to think even the most not-probable.
BRAM STOKER Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matte...
BRAM STOKER All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so dea...
BRAM STOKER I want to cut off her head and take out her heart.
BRAM STOKER En la vida hay tinieblas, mi niña, pero también hay luces. Y tu eres la luz de toda luz.
BRAM STOKER It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight...
BRAM STOKER Doctor, you don't know what it is to doubt everything, even yourself. No, you don't, you couldn't wi...
BRAM STOKER (Drácula) Qué pocos días son necesarios para que pase un siglo.
BRAM STOKER This will not do,' he said to himself. 'If I go on like this I shall become a crazy fool. This must ...
BRAM STOKER She told me that she did not like the idea of your being in that house all by yourself, and that she...
BRAM STOKER It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true...
BRAM STOKER I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the origina...
BRAM STOKER And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin;...
BRAM STOKER Look, Mr. uh, Wulf I appreciate your trying to warn me about this, Ireally do. But there's no such t...
MEG CABOT He gave me a look that was almost pitying, and when he smiled it was the smile of a vengeful god. "M...
DEANNA RAYBOURN Every house has its own story, its own character.
BETSY MURPHY Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest in...
PIERRE CHARRON A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
TEA OBREHT Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
GOETHE A film has its own life and takes its own time.
AARON ECKHART You know like it has its own personality, its own character.
MARC NEWSON A nation has its first obligation to its own workers and its own poor.
RICHARD LAMM Sometimes the Lord calms the storm. Sometimes He lets the storm rage and calms His child.
UNKNOWN I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC the hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its ...
NEIL DIAMOND Jo? Look at me. I’m about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to rem...
SHERRILYN KENYON A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI Every head has its own headache
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BRAM STOKER And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and...
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BRAM STOKER Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she ...
BRAM STOKER I have been so long master
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shoul...
BRAM STOKER There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very ma...
BRAM STOKER Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if...
BRAM STOKER Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farming house far down the road - a long, agonized wailing,a...
BRAM STOKER These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How the...
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BRAM STOKER I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.
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