#dracula

He said there is a place in Gaul, the oldest church in their part of the world, where some of the Latin monks have outwitted death by secret means. He offered to sell me their secrets, which he has inscribed in a book." The abbot shudders. "God preserve us from such heresies," he says hastily. "I am certain, my son, that you refused this temptation." Dracula smiles. "You know I am fond of books. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#death

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#dreams #memories #strange #dreams

I never imagined being undead would be so much work,” Jeff lamented. “Being a ‘vampire’ takes no work at all,” Timothy emphasized vampire. “It’s surviving that takes all the work. ↗

— Ben Tousey

#dracula #undead #vampire #imagination

Good evening and good night. ↗

— Dracula Bela Lugosi

#dracula #vampire #vampire-movies #vampires #movies

History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should you not use your great mind in service of what is perfectible? I ask you, my friend, to join me of your own accord in my research. If you do so, you will save yourself great anguish, and you will save me considerable trouble. Together we will advance the historian's work beyond anything the world has ever seen. There is no purity like the purity of the sufferings of history. You will have what every historian wants: history will be reality to you. We will wash our minds clean with blood. ↗

— Elizabeth Kostova

#nature

As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula. ↗

— Dave Barry

#child #dracula #example #for example #i

Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood. ↗

— Frank Langella

#dracula #each #food #help #liquor

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#dracula #find #i #played #screen

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#count #country #course #delight #directed

I had to wonder, though, if there's something about a murderer, particularly a confident one, that gives him a certain charisma or charm that I, in particular, am susceptible to. I mean, there's a reason more women are attracted to Dracula than repelled by him. I made a resolution to myself. From now on, I'd assume that every man I was attracted to was a murderer until proven otherwise. Perhaps it wasn't the most promising strategy for starting a relationship, but I might live longer. ↗

— Lee Goldberg

#charisma #dating #dracula #murder #murderer