“It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.”

“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”

“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”

“No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.”

“But he cannot flourish without this diet, he eat not as others. Even friend Jonathan, who lived with him for weeks, did never see him eat, never! He throws no shadow, he make in the mirror no reflect, as again Jonathan observe. He has the strength of many of his hand, witness again Jonathan when he shut the door against the wolves, and when he help him from the diligence too. He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog, he can be as bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy.”

“I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.”

“He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.”