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Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. November 1847 – 20. April 1912
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Bram Stoker Quotes

“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“Truly there is no such thing as finality.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“Good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.”

Bram Stoker book The Jewel of Seven Stars

Source: The Jewel of Seven Stars

“All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

“it never rains but it pours.”

Bram Stoker

Dracula and Other Stories

“Do not grieve for her! Who knows, but she may have found the joy she sought? Love and patience are all that make for happiness in this world; or in the world of the past or of the future; of the living or the dead. She dreamed her dream; and that is all that any of us can ask.”

Bram Stoker book The Jewel of Seven Stars

The Jewel of Seven Stars, Chapter XIX: The Great Experiment (1903)

“Seven years ago we all went through the flames. And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Jonathan Harker
Dracula (1897)

“We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Dracula to Jonathan Harker
Dracula (1897)

“He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror. It must have been my weakness that made me hesitate to tell it to my friend, but I felt it all the more, like unshed tears.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Dr. John Seward
Dracula (1897)

“You think to baffle me, you with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have more. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already. And through them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed. Bah!”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Dracula, having found Jonathan Harker, Quincey Morris and Arthur Holmwood in his house
Dracula (1897)

“I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light. Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back.
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door. The old man motioned me in with his right hand with a courtly gesture, saying in excellent English, but with a strange intonation.
"Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!"”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Jonathan Harker's journal
Dracula (1897)

“Be careful of my guest — his safety is most precious to me. Should aught happen to him, or if he be missed, spare nothing to find him and ensure his safety. He is English and therefore adventurous. There are often dangers from snow and wolves and night. Lose not a moment if you suspect harm to him. I answer your zeal with my fortune.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula's Guest

Telegram to Bistritz from Count Dracula.
Dracula's Guest (1914)

“One and all we felt that the holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face and form was only an earthly token and symbol of the calm that was to reign for ever.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Dr. Seward of Lucy Westenra
Dracula (1897)

“Go home, Johann — Walpurgis nacht doesn't concern Englishmen.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula's Guest

Jonathan Harker
Dracula's Guest (1914)

“The sun was almost down on the mountain tops, and the shadows of the whole group fell upon the snow. I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. As I looked, the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat. Whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris's bowie knife plunged into the heart. It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight. I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Mina Harker
Dracula (1897)

“THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST”

Bram Stoker book Dracula's Guest

Inscription found on the tomb of Countess Dolingen of Gratz by Jonathan Harker
Dracula's Guest (1914)
Variant: For the dead travel fast.