Dracula Key Quotes

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Dracula - Key Quotes

Chapter 1 - travelling to Transylvania

'One of the wildest and least known portions of Europe'

'every known superstition is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians'

'heavy, opressive sense of thunder'

'ghost-like clouds seemed to wind ceaselessly throughout the valley'

Chapter 2 - Dracula

'Listen to them - the children of the night what music they make'

'long, sharp canine teeth'

'his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury'

Chapter 3 The Vampire Women

'wicked, burning desire'

'honey - sweet'

'bitter underlying the sweet, a biter offensive'

'deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive'

'she licked her lips like an animal'

'white sharp teeth'

'I closed my eyes in langurous ecstacy and waited - waited with a beating heart'

'flames of hell-fire blazed behind them'

Chapter 3

Chapter 4 - Chapel

'deathly sickly odour'

'bloated face, bloodstained and fixed with a grin of malice'

Chapter 5 - Mina and Lucy

'When we are married I shall be useful to Jonathan'

'why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them'

Chapter 6 - Renfield

'it was life, strong life and gave life to him'

'there is a method in his madness'

Chapter 7 - Storm

'bleating of a sheep or the barking of a dog'

'white, wet clouds which swept by in a ghostly fashion so dank and cold'

'spirits of those lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death'

'a mass of dank mist'

'booming of mighty billows came through the damp oblivion'

Chapter 8 Lucy's sleepwalking

'half reclining figure'

'long, heavy gasps'

'sleeping, moaning and sighing occasionally'

'half dreamy state'

'my soul seemed to go out from my body and float about the air'

'strong man with homicidal and religious mania'

'he was more like a wild beast than a man'

Chapter 9 - Mina and Jonathan

'Then I kissed it'

Chapter 10 Blood transfusion

'she will die for sheer want of blood'

'there was fire in his eyes'

'He is so young and strong and of blood so pure'

Chapter 11 - Renfield and Blood

'He was lying on his belly on the floor licking up, like a dog, the blood'

'The blood is the life!'

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15 - Lucy's tomb

'the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust'

'rusty, dank iron'

'tarnished brass'

'more radiantly beautiful than ever'

Chapter 16 - Vampire Lucy

'wafer-like biscuit'

'the sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty and purity to voluptuous wantonness'

'lips were crimson with fresh blood...stained the purity of her lawn death robe'

'angry snarl'

'Lucy's eyes unclean and full of hell-fire'

'her eyes blazed with unholy light'

'she flung to the ground, callous as a devil, the child'

'growling over it as a dog growls over a bone'

'come to me, Arthur...my arms are hungry for you'

'diabolically sweet'

'lovely, blood-stained mouth'

'This stake must be driven through her'

Chapter 17

Chapter 18 - VH on Dracula

'he is devil in callous'

'To us forever are the gates of heaven shut'

'we have on our side power of combination - a power denied to the vampire kind; we have resources of science'

'all we have to go upon are traditions and superstitions;

Chapter 19 - Carfax Abbey

'a faint, malodorous air seemed to exhale through the gaps'

'air stagnant and foul'

the odour 'it was composed of all the ills of mortality and with the pungent, acrid smell of blood'

'Every breath exhaled by that monster seemed to have clung to the place and intensified its loathsomness'

'The whole place was becoming alive with rats'

Mina Dreaming

'I found a lethargy creeping over me'

'the air was heavy, and dank, and cold'

'leaden lethargy seemed to chain my limbs and even my will'

'the mist grew thicker and thicker'

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

'her white nightdress was smeared in blood'

'lay Jonathan Harker, his face flushed and breathing heavily as though in stupor'

'forcing her neck down on his bosom'

'his eyes flamed red with devilish passion'

'Unclean, unclean! I must touch him or kiss him no more'

Chapter 23 - Dracula

'hate and baffled malignity - of anger and hellish rage - which came over the Count's face'

'My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already and through them you and other shall yet be mine - my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed'