Dracula quotes

• CHAPTER ONE

  “Some of them were just like the peasants at home”

  “They are very picturesque”

  “Taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me”

  “The swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves. Right and left of us they towered”

  “Hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth as white as ivory”

  “The courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose battlemennts showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky”
• CHAPTER TWO

  “Of bell knocker there was no sign; frowning walls/dark window openings”

  “His face was a strong - very strong - aquiline”

  “In the library, I found a vast number of English books."

  “Littered with magazines and english newspapers, though none of them were of a recent date”

  “I have been so long master that I would be master still - or at least that none other should be master of me”

  “The count smiled, and as his lips ran back over his gum, the long, sharp, canine teeth showed”

  “All eaten with rust”

  “The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner” (32)
• CHAPTER THREE

  “Canine teeth, red underlip”

  “I saw the whole man… begin to crawl down the castle wall”

  “Had high aquiline noses, like the count”

  “All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips”

  “I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips”

  “looking...in an agony of delightful anticipation”

  “licked her lips like an animal”

  “Churning sound of her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips”

  “Back, I tell you! This man belongs to me!”

  “There was a gasp and low wail, as of a half-smothered child”
• CHAPTER FOUR

  “the suit of clothes which I had worn whilst travelling here.”

  “Every scrap of paper was gone” - Drac destroys book

  “Golds of all kinds, Roman and British, Austrian and Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money, covered with a film of dust”.

  "led through a stone passage to a circular stairway, which went steeply down. I descended, minding carefully where I went for the stairs were dark, being only lit by loopholes in the heavy masonry." 
• CHAPTER FOUR

  “rattling chains” / “clanking massive bolts”

  "deathly, sickly odour, the odour of old earth newly turned."

  "found myself in an old ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyard. lay the Count!

  "Mina is a woman, and there is nought in common. They are devils of the Pit!"
• CHAPTER FIVE

  “I have been simply overwhelmed with work”

  “A woman ought to tell her husband everything”

  “Men like women, certainly their wives to be quite as fair as they are; and women, I am afraid, are always quite as fair as they should be”

  “Little girl, I hold your hand, and you’ve kissed me” → Patronising predatory

  “Why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?”

  “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?”

  “Sanguine temperament; great physical strength; morbidly excitable”
• CHAPTER SIX

  “Some of the graves have been destroyed”

  “I am to lock the door of our room every night”

  “Take their tombstones with them on the day of judgement” →

  “That he has eaten his birds, and that he just took and ate them raw!"
• CHAPTER  SEVEN

  “A number of great wooden boxes filled with mould” → Spreading eugenics, multiplying disease/infiltrating britain
• CHAPTER EIGHT

  “I believe we have shocked the ‘New Woman’ with our appetites”

  “Lucy is full of quiet joy”

  “I wanted no witness of poor lucy’s condition”

  “When I had her carefully wrapped up I put my shoes on her feet, and then began very gently to wake her.”

  “I am here to do your bidding, Master. I am your slave, and you will reward me, for I shall be faithful
• CHAPTER NINE

  “It must be something wrong with my lungs, for I don’t seem to be getiting air enough”
• CHAPTER TEN

  “There must be a transfusion of blood at once. Is it you or me?”

  “You shall kiss her once before it is done”

  “The brave lover, I think, deserve another kiss”

  “Her lips were slightly parted and her breast rose and fell with the regularity of a pendulum”

  “Seemingly in a swoon”

  “Not to be found in any pharmacopeia that I ever heard of”
• CHAPTER ELEVEN

  “Locked the door”

  “Lying on his belly on the floor licking up, like a dog, the blood which had  fallen from my wounded wrist”

  “The blood is the life!” → symbol of vitality, blood of christ, an unholy parody of christ communion, fear of the demise of the religious fate
• CHAPTER TWELVE

  • “A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble. Well, the devil may work against us for he’s worth, but god sends us men when we want them”
  • “I came to speak about the certificate of death. There may be an inquest…hopes we need have no inquest” → hypocratic oath, legality of victorian era in shambles
  • “Heard this moment the flapping of the wings of the angel of death”
  • “Canine teeth looked sharper than the rest”
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN

  • “All lucy’s loveliness had come back to her in death”
  • “I want to cut off her head and take out her heart”
  • “His face was not a good face. It was hard, and cruel, and sensual, and big white teeth, that looked all the whiter because his lips were so red”
  • “Bloofer lady; Children…slightly torn or wounded in the throat”
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN

  • “I shall get my typewriter this very hour and begin transcribing”
  • “I could not resist the temptation of mistifying him a bit”
  • “I can show it to you if you like”
  • “Handed him the shorthand diary”
  • “You so clever woman”
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN

  • ”This is the key that locks the tomb”
  • “More radiantly beautiful than ever, I could not believe that she was dead”
  • “Undead”
  • “May I cut of the head of dead miss Lucy"
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN

  • “Never did the tombs look so ghastly white”
  • “White figure advance, a dim white figure, which held something dark at it’s breast”     → Lucy’s image of purity is completely gone, she is a fallen woman through the eye sof the men, but for women she can be seen as a freed woman
  • “Lucy’s eyes, unclean and full of hell fire”
  • “Powers of the undead”
  • “Curse of immorality”
  • “Kiss her dead lips”
  • “Then we cut off the head and filled the mouth with garlic”
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

  • “A pearl among women” → VH talking about Mina
  • “Seward, you had better let me copy it out for you on my typewriter”
  • “No one need ever know, shall ever know”
  • “I lay back in my chair powerless”
  • “We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother spirit is invoked” → feminine uterine power
  • “Little girl!” Quincey to Mina
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

  “She looked so appealing and so pretty that i could not refuse her”

  “I tried to kill him for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers”

  “She has a man’s brain, a brain that a man should have were he much gifted, and a woman’s heart”

  “But it is no part for a woman”

  “It was jonathan who was bending over me”

  “We have sources of science, we are free to act and think”

  “A big bat and sat on the window sill”

  “Sterilise the earth”
• CHAPTER NINETEEN

  • “Ills of morality”
  • “Corruption had become itself corrupt” → how foul and destitute society had become Nietzschean 
  • “The whole place was becoming alive with rats” / “The number of rats vastly increased”
  • “It is too great a strain for a woman to bear”
  • “But to think that he keeps anything from me!”
  • “Things began to whirl through my brain just as the cloudy column was now whirling in the room”
• CHAPTER TWENTY

  • “She looked heavy and sleepy and pale, far from well.”
  • “You like life and you want life?”
  • “We must sterilise all the imported earth between sunrise and sunset”
  • “I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait waistcoats”
• CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

  • “In the mist…He was laughing with his red mouth, the sharp white teeth glinted”
  • “Big moths in the night, with skull and cross-bones on their backs”
  • “Rats, rats, rats”
  • “Her white night-dress was smeared with blood”
  • “Wild beast”
  • “Unclean, Unclean! I must touch him or kiss him no more”
  • “She clasped his hand harder, and looked at him pityingly, as if he were the injured one”
  • “Pulled open his shirt/with his nails opened a vein in his breast/seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound”
• CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

  • “His face was all bruised and crushed in, and the bones of the neck were broken” →Jack the ripper
  • “It was pitiful to see her so brave”
  • “You must not die”
  • “And so we have this day to hunt out all his lairs and sterilise them.”
  • “Done en regle” → in order with rules
  • “Placed the wafer on Mina’s forehead, It had seared it”
  • “I must bear this mark of shame upon my judgement day”
• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

  • “To wipe out this brute from the face of creation. I would sell my soul to do it!”
  • ‘Of that sweet, sweet, good, good woman in all the radiant beauty of her youth and animation.”
  • “We men were all in tears now”
  • “You are mortal woman”
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR/FIVE

  • “He wants an exact record kept”
  • “I know all that brave earnest men can do for a poor weak woman, whose soul perhaps is lost, no, no, no , not yet, but is at any rate at stake”
  • “Each of them in turn kneeling to her to take the oath”
  • “There have been times when brave men have killed their wives and their womankind, to keep them from falling into the hands oft the enemy”
  • “It had become a habit for Van Helsing to hypnotise her at such times”
  • “Judge Moneybag will settle this case”
  • “Harker has written with the typewriter”
• • CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  • “The air was oppressive”
  • “She was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so exquisitely voluptuous, that the very instinct of man in me which calls some of my sex to love and to protect one of hers, made my head whirl with new emotion”
  • “Plunged into the heart” - think vs Lucy’s beheading how violent it was
  • “The whole body crumbled into dust”