"We learn from failure, not from success!"
-Dr. Van Helsing, Dracula
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“ I have been so long master that I would be master still—or at least that none other should be master of me. “
Do you think if Dracula had just tried to get to England as a normal guy he would have had more luck? A normal-ish passenger with a trunk full of dirt who does not eat the crew of the ship carrying him across the deadly moving water.
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Mina Harker being Mina Harker for the first time during the narrative in a letter to her friend on the 24th of August
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I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
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I'm listening to @re-dracula again now that it's all out, and Dr. Van Helsing has so many good quotes.
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Bram Stoker, from The Collected Prose Works of Bram Stoker; “Dracula,” wr. c. 1897
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Affirmation Mondays 341
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” ~ Bram Stoker, Dracula
The veil between worlds is thinning, darkness is enveloping more of our days and yet, somehow, hope and light remain…
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
Oh Autumn, the time when the shadow…
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Mina: "I hope it's not too presumptuous to pray that God doesn't massacre Jonathan in a blind angry wrath against me. As for me, I am dirt on the ground, so I deserve whatever's coming to me."
VH: "... I'm taking this typewriter away until you can think of 3 nice things to write about yourself."
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Seward: Hey Dr. VH, I'm finally starting to feel not-so-depressed for the first time in this whole novel, what's up?
Van Helsing: Let's talk about the death of poor miss lucy again - how do you think she died?
Seward: I have no idea and I'd really rather not--
Van Helsing: Corporeal Transference! Astral Bodies! Hypnotism! Fine ladies at the opera! Wizards! Methuselah! Old Spiders! Giant Bats! Old Tortoises! THE CORN! *grabbing Seward by the shoulders and shaking him* Do you understand now?!
Seward, near tears: I have no idea what's happening right now.
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Look okay, I'm not saying these two are one for one copies of each other, and there's probably some essay in here somewhere about grief vs anger and neglect vs abuse and how those things can and do intersect.
BUT I am saying that the quotes: "Your greatest gift to me, and I'm killing him," and, "You, Dad. I'd still have you," and their (Dracula & Omni-Man) subsequent reactions immediately afterwards are things that both had me staring at the cieling for a long time after I turned off the TV.
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»[…] the dog which landed when the ship stuck […] seems to have disappeared entirely […]«
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