Quotes from book

Dracula

“Come freely, go safely and leave something of the happiness you bring.”

“For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.”

“How 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.”

“How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.”

“Because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope.”

“I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats.”

“There are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.”

“But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.”

“This man belongs to me, I want him!”

“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”

“I want you to believe… to believe in things that you cannot.”

“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.”

“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”

“Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!”

“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”

“I suppose a cry does us all good at times-clears the air as other rain does.”

“I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.”

“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”