01c. 1879 ADI have been so long masterthat I would be master still, or at least that none othershould be master of me.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
03c. 1879 ADWhatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!Bram Stoker / quote ↗
04c. 1879 ADOh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes and troubles, and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
05c. 1879 ADThere are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
06c. 1879 ADI was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses. Not knowing what to trust, I did not know what to do; and so had only to keep on working in what had hitherto been the groove of my life. The groove ceased to avail me, and I mistrusted myself.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
07c. 1879 ADCome,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
08c. 1879 ADAll 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 / quote ↗
09c. 1879 ADIn selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
10c. 1879 ADKeep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the true laughter. No! he is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person; he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.' ... Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall - all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. And believe me, friend John, that he is good to come, and kind. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again; and we bear to go on with our labour, what it may be.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
11c. 1879 ADKeep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
12c. 1879 ADAs yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
13c. 1879 ADI am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
14c. 1879 ADAnd you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for awhile; and shall later on be my companion and my helper.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
15c. 1879 ADThe effect on Lucy was not bad, for the faint seemed to merge subtly into the narcotic sleep. It was with a feeling of personal pride that I could see a faint tinge of colour steal back into the pallid cheeks and lips. No man knows, till he experiences it, what it is to feel his own lifeblood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves.The Professor watched me critically. "That will do," he said. "Already?" I remonstrated. "You took a great deal more from Art." To which he smiled a sad sort of smile as he replied, "He is her lover, her fiance. You have work, much work to do for her and for others, and the present will suffice.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
16c. 1879 ADThere are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
17c. 1879 ADNo man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
18c. 1879 ADWhether 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.Bram Stoker / quote ↗
