STOKER, Bram - Dracula

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Johnathan Harker: I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had all sorts of queer dreams.

Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 1

Johnathan Harker: The women looked pretty, except when you got near them.
Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 1

Coachman: You cannot deceive me, my friend. I know too much, and my horses are swift.
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Johnathan Harker: This startled me, but as the effect was only momentary, I took it that my eyes deceived me straining.
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Johnathan Harker: I felt a sort of paralysis of fear. It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.” Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 1

Johnathan Harker: I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place.

Stoker, Dracula, chapter 2

Johnathan Harker: As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder. It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal.
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Johnathan Harker: "Do you wish me to stay so long?" I asked, for my heart grew cold at the thought.
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Johnathan Harker: I quite understood. My only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and mystery which seemed closing around me.
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Johnathan Harker: Up to now I never quite knew what Shakespeare meant when he made Hamlet say, "My tablets! Quick, my tablets! `tis meet that I put it down," etc., For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose.
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Johnathan Harker: To be sure, there were certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by in a manner which was not my habit. My watch was still unwound, and I am rigorously accustomed to wind it the last thing before going to bed, and many such details. But these things are no proof, for they may have been evidences that my mind was not as usual, and, for some cause or another, I had certainly been much upset. I must watch for proof.
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Johnathan Harker: Every scrap of paper was gone, and with it all my notes, my memoranda, relating to railways and travel, my letter of credit, in fact all that might be useful to me were I once outside the castle.
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Lucy Westenra: I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore. That is slang again, but never mind. Arthur says that every day.
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Lucy Westenra: He was very cool outwardly, but was nervous all the same. He had evidently been schooling himself as to all sorts of little things, and remembered them, but he almost managed to sit down on his silk hat, which men don't generally do when they are cool, and then when he wanted to appear at ease he kept playing with a lancet in a way that made me nearly scream.
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Miss Lucy, I know I ain't good enough to regulate the fixin's of your little shoes, but I guess if you wait till you find a man that is you will go join them seven young women with the lamps when you quit. Won't you just hitch up alongside of me and let us go down the long road together, driving in double harness?
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Lucy Westenra: My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great hearted, true gentleman.
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Quincy P. Morris: It's better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world. Don't cry, my dear. If it's for me, I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up. If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me. Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover, it's more selfish anyhow. My dear, I'm going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come.
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Mr. Swales: Lies all of them, nothin' but lies of one kind or another! My gog, but it'll be a quare scowderment at the Day of Judgment when they come tumblin' up in their death-sarks, all jouped together an' trying' to drag their tombsteans with them to prove how good they was,
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Mina Murray: Oh, Mr. Swales, you can't be serious. Surely these tombstones are not all wrong?
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Mina Murray: I nodded, for I thought it better to assent, though I did not quite understand his dialect. I knew it had something to do with the church.
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Mr. Swales: "Who brought him home, I wonder, to hap him here? Murdered off the coast of Andres! An' you consated his body lay under! Why, I could name ye a dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above,
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Mina Murray & Mr. Swales:

"But," I said, "surely you are not quite correct, for you start on the assumption that all the poor people, or their spirits, will have to take their tombstones with them on the Day of Judgment. Do you think that will be really necessary?"

"Well, what else be they tombstones for? Answer me that, miss!"

"To please their relatives, I suppose."

"To please their relatives, you suppose!" This he said with intense scorn. "How will it pleasure their relatives to know that lies is wrote over them, and that everybody in the place knows that they be lies?"

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Mr. Swales: And, as to hopes of a glorious resurrection, I've often heard him say masel' that he hoped he'd go to hell, for his mother was so pious that she'd be sure to go to heaven, an' he didn't want to addle where she was.
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Dr. John Seward: To me it seems only yesterday that my whole life ended with my new hope, and that truly I began a new record. So it shall be until the Great Recorder sums me up and closes my ledger account with a balance to profit or loss.

Dr. John Seward: Oh, Lucy, Lucy, I cannot be angry with you, nor can I be angry with my friend whose happiness is yours, but I must only wait on hopeless and work. Work! Work!
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Mina Murray: Mrs. Westenra has got an idea that sleep-walkers always go out on roofs of houses and along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly wakened and fall over with a despairing cry that echoes all over the place.
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Mina Murray: Another week gone by, and no news from Jonathan, not even to Mr. Hawkins, from whom I have heard. Oh, I do hope he is not ill. He surely would have written. I look at that last letter of his, but somehow it does not satisfy me. It does not read like him, and yet it is his writing. There is no mistake of that.
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Mina Murray: Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it tonight.
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Mina Murray: The town seemed as dead, for not a soul did I see. I rejoiced that it was so, for I wanted no witness of poor Lucy's condition.
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Sis Agatha, St. Joseph Hospital: He has had some fearful shock, so says our doctor, and in his delirium his ravings have been dreadful, of wolves and poison and blood, of ghosts and demons, and I fear to say of what. Be careful of him always that there may be nothing to excite him of this kind for a long time to come. The traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and the guard was told by the station master there that he rushed into the station shouting for a ticket for home.
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Mina Murray: I knew then that he was in deadly earnest, for he has never called me by that name since he asked me to marry him,
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Johnathan Harker: You know I had brain fever, and that is to be mad. The secret is here, and I do not want to know it. … Are you willing, Wilhelmina, to share my ignorance? Here is the book. Take it and keep it, read it if you will, but never let me know unless, indeed, some solemn duty should come upon me to go back to the bitter hours, asleep or awake, sane or mad, recorded here.
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Mina Murray: I took the book from under his pillow, and wrapped it up in white paper, and tied it with a little bit of pale blue ribbon which was round my neck, and sealed it over the knot with sealing wax, and for my seal I used my wedding ring. Then I kissed it and showed it to my husband, and told him that I would keep it so, and then it would be an outward and visible sign for us all our lives that we trusted each other, that I would never open it unless it were for his own dear sake or for the sake of some stern duty.
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Lucy Westenra: Perhaps it is the change of air, or getting home again. It is all dark and horrid to me, for I can remember nothing. But I am full of vague fear, and I feel so weak and worn out.
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You must not be angry with me, Art, because his very reticence means that all his brains are working for her good. He will speak plainly enough when the time comes, be sure.
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: The good husbandman tell you so then because he knows, but not till then. But you do not find the good husbandman dig up his planted corn to see if he grow. That is for the children who play at husbandry, and not for those who take it as of the work of their life.
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: But now you are here, you are more good than us, old or young, who toil much in the world of thought. Our nerves are not so calm and our blood so bright than yours!
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Dr. John Seward: For two nights I had hardly had a wink of sleep, and my brain was beginning to feel that numbness which marks cerebral exhaustion.
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Dr. John Seward: I tried to sleep, but I could not. Then there came to me the old fear of sleep, and I determined to keep awake. Perversely sleep would try to come then when I did not want it.
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Dr. John Seward: Only resolution and habit can let me make an entry tonight. I am too miserable, too low spirited, too sick of the world and all in it, including life itself,
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Dr. John Seward: "Ah well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!"

Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity, "Not so, alas! Not so. It is only the beginning!"
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: Friend John, there are strange and terrible days before us. Let us not be two, but one, that so we work to a good end. Will you not have faith in me?"
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.
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Dr. John Seward: For a while sheer anger mastered me.
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: …why take so long to tell so simple a thing? Was it because I hate you and have hated you all my life? Was it because I wished to give you pain? Was it that I wanted, no so late, revenge for that time when you saved my life, and from a fearful death? Ah no!"
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: It is so hard to accept at once any abstract truth, that we may doubt such to be possible when we have always believed the `no' of it.
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: If it not be true, then proof will be relief. At worst it will not harm. If it be true! Ah, there is the dread. Yet every dread should help my cause, for in it is some need of belief.
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Dr. John Seward: My heart sank within me, for I felt that there was some fearful ordeal before us. I could do nothing, however, so I plucked up what heart I could and said that we had better hasten, as the afternoon was passing.
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Arthur Holmwood:  …if it be anything in which my honour as a gentleman or my faith as a Christian is concerned, I cannot make such a promise. If you can assure me that what you intend does not violate either of these two, then I give my consent at once, though for the life of me, I cannot understand what you are driving at.
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: In a long life of acts which were often not pleasant to do, and which sometimes did wring my heart, I have never had so heavy a task as now.
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Dr. John Seward: If ever a face meant death, if looks could kill, we saw it at that moment.
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: They cannot die, but must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world. For all that die from the preying of the Undead become themselves Undead, and prey on their kind. And so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the ripples from a stone thrown in the water.
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Mina Murray: We need have no secrets amongst us. Working together and with absolute trust, we can surely be stronger than if some of us were in the dark.
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Dr. John Seward: She has man's brain, a brain that a man should have were he much gifted, and a woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination.
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Mina Murray: I wonder what has come over me today. I must hide it from Jonathan, for if he knew that I had been crying twice in one morning. . .I, who never cried on my own account, and whom he has never caused to shed a tear, the dear fellow would fret his heart out. I shall put a bold face on, and if I do feel weepy, he shall never see it. I suppose it is just one of the lessons that we poor women have to learn...
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: He have done this alone, all alone! From a ruin tomb in a forgotten land. What more may he not do when the greater world of thought is open to him. He that can smile at death, as we know him. Who can flourish in the midst of diseases that kill off whole peoples. Oh! If such an one was to come from God, and not the Devil, what a force for good might he not be in this old world of ours.
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Dr. John Seward: It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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Dr. John Seward: We were all wild with excitement yesterday when Godalming got his telegram from Lloyd's. I know now what men feel in battle when the call to action is heard.
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Dr. John Seward: Transcendentalism is a beacon to the angels, even if it be a will-o'-the-wisp to man.
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: We, however, are not selfish, and we believe that God is with us through all this blackness, and these many dark hours.
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Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing: My legs are not so quick to run as once. And I am not used to ride so long or to pursue as need be, or to fight with lethal weapons. But I can be of other service. I can fight in other way. And I can die, if need be, as well as younger men.
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And, too, it made me think of the wonderful power of money! What can it not do when basely used. I felt so thankful that Lord Godalming is rich, and both he and Mr. Morris, who also has plenty of money, are willing to spend it so freely. For if they did not, our little expedition could not start, either so promptly or so well equipped, as it will within another hour.
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Quincy P. Morris: "I am only too happy to have been of service! Oh, God!" he cried suddenly, struggling to a sitting posture and pointing to me. "It was worth for this to die!"
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Johnathan Harker: This boy will some day know what a brave and gallant woman his mother is. Already he knows her sweetness and loving care. Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake.
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Characters (had difficulty keeping track)

Johnathan Harker: travels to Transylvania, Mina’s fiancée

Mina Murray: Johnathan’s fiancée

Lucy Westenra: Mina’s best friend, Arthur’s fiancée

Arthur Holmwood: Lucy’s fiancée, son and heir of Lord Godalming. Also goes by the name Godalming when his father dies.

Mrs. Westenra: Lucy’s ill mother

Dr. John Seward: insane asylum administrator, Van Helsing’s pupil, lives close to Dracula, Lucy rejects his marriage proposal

Renfield: insane, consumes flies, spiders, birds

Quincy P. Morris: well educated, but uses American slang to amuse Lucy, Lucy rejects his marriage proposal

Dr. Professor Abraham Van Helsing, of Amsterdam: science professor of John Seward, knows vampire folklore, knows as much about obscure diseases, willing to work outside of traditional medicine

Mr. Swales: retired, aged seaman