Dracula Events Quotes

Chapter 1

The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East. (1.1)

Chapter 2

In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English books, whole shelves full of them, and bound volumes of magazines and newspapers. (2.28)

Chapter 3

It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere "modernity" cannot kill. (3.24)

Chapter 4

This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening...

Chapter 5

Dr Seward's Diary (Kept in phonograph) (5.16)

Chapter 6

Then, too, Lucy, although she is so well, has lately taken to her old habit of walking in her sleep. (6.39)

Chapter 7

It is a very strange thing, this sleep-walking, for as soon as her will is thwarted in any physical way, her intention, if there be any, disappears, and she yields herself almost exactly to the rou...

Chapter 8

If I don't sleep at once, chloral, the modern Morpheus—C2HCl3O.H2O! I should be careful not to let it grow into a habit. No I shall take none tonight! I have thought of Lucy, and I shall not dish...

Chapter 9

"You know, dear, my ideas of the trust between husband and wife: there should be no secret, no concealment." (9.2)

Chapter 10

My friend John and I have consulted; and we are about to perform what we call a transfusion of blood—to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins which pine for him. (10.19)

Chapter 11

Telegram, Van Helsing, Antwerp, to Seward, Carfax (Sent to Carfax, Sussex, as no county given; delivered late by twenty-two hours) (11.56)

Chapter 12

There was no need to think them dead, for their stertorous breathing and the acrid smell of laudanum in the room left no doubt as to their condition. (12.6)

Chapter 13

Arthur was saying that he felt since then as if they two had been really married, and that she was his wife in the sight of God. None of us said a word of the other operations, and none of us ever...

Chapter 14

"Good God, Professor!" I said, starting up. "Do you mean to tell me that Lucy was bitten by such a bat; and that such a thing is here in London in the nineteenth century?" (14.76)

Chapter 16

[…] we recognized the features of Lucy Westenra. Lucy Westenra, but yet how changed. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. (16.17)

Chapter 17

"I keep [my diary] in this." As he spoke he laid his hand on the phonograph. I felt quite excited over it, and blurted out:— "Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?" (17.16-17)

Chapter 18

We have on our side […] resources of science (18.40)

Chapter 19

[…] I asked Dr Seward to give me a little opiate of some kind, as I had not slept well the night before. He very kindly made me up a sleeping draught, which he gave to me, telling me that it...

Chapter 21

With his left hand he held both Mrs Harker's hands, keeping them away with her arms at full tension; his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom. Her whit...

Chapter 22

As he had placed the Wafer on Mina's forehead, it had seared it—had burned into the flesh as though it had been a piece of white-hot metal. (22.43)

Chapter 23

"He has all along, since his coming, been trying his power, slowly but surely; that big child-brain of his is working." (23.4)

Chapter 24

I have told them how the measure of leaving his own barren land—barren of peoples—and coming to a new land where life of man teems till they are like the multitude of standing corn, was the wor...

Chapter 27

Then the beautiful eyes of the fair woman open and look love, and the voluptuous mouth present to a kiss—and man is weak. (27.29)