Dracula Key Quotes Flashcards

1
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then he struck

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with all his might… he looked like the figure of Thor

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2
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there was a deliberate

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voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive

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3
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tingling

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sweetness of water glasses

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4
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the castle is a

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veritable prison, and i am prisoner

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5
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it was with a feeling of personal

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pride that i could see a faint tinge of colour steal back into the pallid cheeks and lips. no man knows till he experienced it, what it is to feel his own lifeblood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves

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6
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zoophagous

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(life-eating) maniac

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7
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the blood is

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the life!

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8
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few feathers about the

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room and on his pillow a drop of blood

Renfield (consummation?)

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9
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prodigious

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strength

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10
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how dare you cast

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eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back i tell you all! This man belongs to me!

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11
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my revenge

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has just begun! i spread it over centuries and time is on my side. your girls that you all love are mine already

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12
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man or

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beast i could not tell

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13
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flesh of my

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flesh, blood of my blood, kin of my kin

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14
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come to me Arthur

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leave these others and come to me. my arms are hungry for you. come and we can rest together. come, my husband, come!

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15
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why cant they let

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a girl marry three men or as many as want her?

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16
Q

the sweetness had turned to

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adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the pity to voluptuous wantoness

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17
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the whole carnal and

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unspiritual appearance, seeming like a devilish mockery of Lucy’s sweet purity

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18
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there is a poison

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in my blood, in my soul, which may destroy me

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19
Q

unclean

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unclean! i must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the judgement day

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20
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forcing her head

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down onto his bosom. her white nightdress was smeared with blood

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21
Q

mans brain

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and woman’s heart

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22
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it seemed to me that

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we were simply going over and over the same ground again

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23
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a vast ruined castle

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from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky

24
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welcome to my house

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come freely, go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring

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a small octagonal
room lit by a single lamp and seemingly without a window of any sort
26
his face was a strong
-a very strong- aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead... sharp white teeth; these portruded over the lips... his ears were pale and at the tops extremely pointed
27
there was no reflection
of him in the mirror
28
his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac
fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat
29
the castle
is a veritable prision, and i am a prisioner!
30
some longing and at the
same time some deadly fear
31
i could feel the soft,
shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dens of the two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. i closed my eyes in a langurous ecstacy and waited
32
i believe we should have shocked the
new woman with out appetites. men are more tolerant, bless them!
33
she was ghastly, chakily pale
the red seemed to have gone from her lips and gums,
34
she will die for
sheer want of blood
35
she wants blood
and blood she must have or die
36
tell me and i shall do it
my life is hers, and i would give the last drop of blood in my body for her
37
as sometimes we see in a corpse
after a prolonged illness
38
a braves man's blood
is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble god sends us men when we want them
39
said in a soft, voluptuous
voice, such as I has never heard from her lips- 'Arthur! oh, my love, I am so glad you have come! kiss me!
40
death had given back
part of her beauty
41
she makes a very beautiful
corpse, sir. it's quite a priviledge to attend to her
42
all lucy's loveliness had
come back to her in death
43
why mutilate her poor
body without need?
44
the tomb in the daytime
and when wreathed with fresh flowers had looked grim and gruesome enough... the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined
45
it seemed to be as much an affront
to the dead as it would have been to have stripped of her clothing in her sleep whilst living
46
she was more
radiantly beautiful than ever; and i could not believe that she was dead. the lips were red, nay redder than before, and on the cheeks was a delicate bloom
47
i too, have a duty to do
a duty to others, a duty to you, a duty to the dead, and , by god, i shall do it
48
the child that up to now
she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone
49
the body shook and
quivered and twisted in wild contortions
50
pearl among
women
51
it is too great a strain for a woman to bear
there may be things which would frighten her to hear
52
on the bed beside the window
lay johnathan harker, his face flushed and breathing heavily as though in a stupor
53
the great nostrils of
the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge; and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, champed together like those of a wild beast
54
i turned to wake jonathan
but found that he slept so soundly
55
silence!
if you make a sound i shall take him and dash his brains out before your very eyes
56
seized my neck and pressed
my mouth to the wound, so that i must either suffocate or swallow some of the-
57
he was deathly pale
just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which i knew too well