quotes

• i was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the castle dracula - jonathon
• she put the rosary around my neck and said for your mothers sake - jonathon
• soon we were hemmed in with trees - jonathon
• i grew dreadfully afraid, and the horses shared my fear; but the driver was not in the least distracted - jonathon
• the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky - jonathon
• Through these frowning walls and dark window openings it was not likely that my voice could penetrate
• Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own free will!" - dracula 


  almost as if he’s putting whatever happens on him
• holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice, more like the hand of a dead than a living man - jonathon
• His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere - jonathon
• The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth. These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years - jonathon describing dracula
• 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 - jonathon
• I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves. The Count's eyes gleamed, and he said. "Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” - jonathon
• I did not like to go about the castle until I had asked the Count's permission - jonathan
• in your London, none there are who would not know me for a stranger. That is not enough for me. Here I am noble. I am a Boyar. The common people know me, and I am master. But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for - dracula
• "You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked, where of course you will not wish to go. There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand - dracula
• "We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things - dracula
• "I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me. A house cannot be made habitable in a day, and after all, how few days go to make up a century - dracula 


  from when jonathan explains the carfax deal. This hints at Dracula’s true age, with his entirely different concept of time
• I am glad that I went into detail from the first, for there is something so strange about this place and all in it that I cannot but feel uneasy - jonathon
• I have only the Count to speak with, and he--I fear I am myself the only living soul within the place - jonathan
• the man was close to me, and I could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror! The whole room behind me was displayed, but there was no sign of a man in it, except myself. - jonathon
• When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat - jonathon
• was beginning to increase that vague feeling of uneasiness which I always have when the Count is near - jonathon
• his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there. - jonathon
• The castle is on the very edge of a terrific precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything - jonathon
• Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit - jonathon
• The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner! - jonathon
• trying every door and peering out of every window I could find, but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other feelings - jonathon
• my only plan will be to keep my knowledge and my fears to myself, and my eyes open. I am, I know, either being deceived, like a baby, by my own fears - jonathan
• Bless that good, good woman who hung the crucifix round my neck! For it is a comfort and a strength to me whenever I touch it. It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help - jonathan
• I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me. I am in fear, in awful fear, and there is no escape for me. I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of - jonathan after seeing dracula climb down the wall
• Two were dark, and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes, that seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires - jonathan
• I seemed somehow to know her face, and to know it in connection with some dreamy fear, but I could not recollect at the moment how or where - jonathan about the brides
•  All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips - jonathan
•  There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. - jonathan about the brides
• I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips. It is not good to note this down, lest some day it should meet Mina's eyes and cause her pain, but it is the truth - jonathan 


  victorian society’s fear of the new woman
• There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal - jonathan
• I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the super-sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my eyes in languorous ecstasy and waited, waited with beating heart. - jonathan when the bride approaches him
• i saw his strong hand grasp the slender neck of the fair woman and with giant's power draw it back, the blue eyes transformed with fury, the white teeth champing with rage, and the fair cheeks blazing red with passion - jonathan when the count pulls the woman away
•  His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them - jonathan describing draculas rage on the women
• With a fierce sweep of his arm, he hurled the woman from him, and then motioned to the others, as though he were beating them back. It was the same imperious gesture that I had seen used to the wolves. - jonathan