Dracula Quotes

"Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make!"

Dracula said this to Jonathan Harker, commenting on the wolves which surround the castle.

"We learn from failure, not from success!"

Van Helsing said this to John Seward when they checking up on Lucy right before Arthur came in and contributed his efforts to the blood transfusion. Alerting John to keep an open mind to the causes of Lucy's illness.

"There is a reason that all things are as they are"

Dracula tells this to Jonathan Harker after Jonathan inquired if he is welcome to enter any room in the castle and Dracula says any that aren't locked.

"There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.”

Van Helsing directs this compliment at Mina for her cleverness and intelligence. Her recording of the discourse between Lucy and her shed more light on the whole situation for the professor.

"Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!"

Dracula welcoming Jonathan after he arrived at the castle.

"Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people […] to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams."

Lucy says this after she was being preyed on by Dracula several times. She is ruminating about how sleep has become a thing of fear and pain instead of solace and rest. Right after Van Helsing instated garlic within her room.

"knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker."

Van Helsing says this to Dr. Seward about how you should not remain in the rigid mindset that is rational science. Just because there's something that can't be explained by science doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

"I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!"

Jonathan says this to himself as he prepares for bed on the first night of his stay in Dracula's castle. Jonathan's western European mindset blinds him to the superstition of the east and renders him completely oblivious to the supernatural elements that happen around him.

"I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air."

Mina writes this in her letter to Lucy. This is before they go together to the town of Whitby.

"I want you to believe. […] To believe in things that you cannot."

Van Helsing directs this statement at his past student, Dr. Seward, to get him to see for himself that the cause of Mina's sudden degradation of health is not within the scope of science to diagnose.

"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."

Jonathan says this the morning he wakes up after the day before where he witnessed the mother of the child which Dracula had stolen from her being eaten by the wolves called by Dracula.

"for many a long day loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings."

Dr. Seward says this at the end of day when Lucy's funeral service was completed. He witnessed Van Helsing burst into hysterics and explain how he laughs seemingly at the wrong times but has compassion for the tragicomical.

"I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it be. I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane."

Van Helsing says this to reassure that what Mina has read in Jonathan's diary is not a subject of his or her imagination and that she need not be afraid of being laughed at.

"Denn die Todten reiten schnell. (For the dead travel fast)"

One of the passengers of the carriage that Jonathan had taken to get to Dracula's carriage that would take him to the castle said this to the driver of Dracula's carriage that came to pick up Jonathan. Jonathan's carriage arrived an hour earlier as to obviate his going to Dracula's castle but weirdly enough, the expected carriage also arrived at that same time.

"I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats."

Dr. Seward says this often, sometimes in other variations, that show how fantastical the situation they're in: with vampires and such, would seem in their time. This madness and insanity threatens to invade their society.

"though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable."

Mina says this in regards to Lucy's heartfelt condolences given concerning Jonathan's whereabouts as Mina hasn't heard from him in a long time.

"I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him."

Lucy says this to Mina in their correspondence through letters as Lucy reveals that she has received three proposals in a day. She wishes that she could simply marry all three of them as she has been emotionally gratified by each of them.

"Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer—both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams."

Said by Dr. Seward regarding Mina's involvement with the work they're doing to rid the world of Dracula. This statement summarizes the Victorian view of women as fragile creatures that submit to the authority of men.

"Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?”

Van Helsing says this to his protege, John Seward, in hopes that this would get his eyes to open and his mind to wander away from the compact thinking that the science community often causes its members to adopt. Van Helsing believes that the scientific outlook concerns itself with rationality but leaves any aspect of spirituality.

"There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head […]. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited”

This is in the journal of Jonathan Harker which he kept throughout his journey and stay at Dracula's castle. This is a depiction of when Jonathan Harker wandered around the castle and forced entry into a room where he lay to rest by the moonlight. He was greeted by dust that turned into the shape of three women. Their sexually dominance enticed him yet repulsed him at the same time, societal standards ostracized these types of women. But repressed, basic instincts, a wandering mind, and a curiosity for the new is what attracted Jonathan.

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

Dr. Seward says this after he takes the role for supplying the blood to Lucy for the second blood transfusion.

"It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play.”

Van Helsing says this in a seemingly burst of hysterics. He finds humor where tragedy lies in the human condition and so is compassionate of human suffering. Contemplates on laughter's ability to relieve pent up stress.

"The blood is the life!"

Renfield says this as he laps up Dr. Seward's blood that had pooled on the floor of the study.

"The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me; with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of."

Jonathan says this after he demanded to leave on June 29th. Dracula grants his wish but as the door was lowered, wolves had gathered at the doorway and Jonathan realizes that Dracula does not mean this sincerely.

"Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it."

Dr. Seward says this in regards to what he considers the future killing of Mina if she ever completes the transformation to be a vampire, a blessing to her as she would be redeemed in the eye of God and allowed to go into kingdom come as with the case of Lucy.

"For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on."

Mr. Swales says this to Mina right before the storm of the century. He is comforted by the thought that he has lived a full life and that God will come for him when the time is right. If there's one thing in this world that is certain, it is death.

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."

Van Helsing says this after his demand that he be allowed to cut Lucy's head off. He wants Arthur to be open to the idea that the supernatural may be at work here and that he is not just doing this on a whim.

"There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word

DRACULA."

Van Helsing says this near the final battle after he had dealt with the three weird sisters. He then proceeds to lay a wafer in Dracula's tomb and render the entire castle such that it will no longer permit entrance for the Dracula.

"How dare you touch him, any of you? […] This man belongs to me!"

Dracula says this to the weird sisters after they made a move on Jonathan. Dracula forbids the weird sisters from touching him until after Dracula is through with Jonathan.

"I have been so long master that I would be master still—or at least that none other should be master of me."

Dracula says this to Jonathan as he elucidates on how his foreignness would make him stick out like a sore thumb if he were to go to England.

"I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit—I suppose it is some of the taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths"

Mina's says this as she playfully gives Van Helsing her short hand diary containing her conversations with Lucy though knowing that he can't read it. She wants to build up suspense.

"I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us"

The reporter says this as Bersicker, the wolf, comes back to its cage in the zoo seemingly of its own free will.

"She has man's brain—a brain that a man should have were he much gifted—and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination."

Van Helsing uses this to praise Mina. She has the intelligence uncharacteristic of a woman but she willingly submits herself to the men around her.

"why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?"

Lucy says this in regards to her rejection of Quincey, one of the men that proposed to her.

"Sleep has no place it can call its own"

Mina says this as she is being hypnotized by Van Helsing to reveal Dracula's location at that present time.

"because if a woman's heart was free a man might have hope."

Lucy says this to Mina in her letter talking about the three proposals that she has received that day.

"good women tell all their lives, and by day and by hour and by minute, such things that angels can read"

Van Helsing praises Mina for recording the last few months in shorthand that way it is preserved.

"the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere 'modernity' cannot kill."

Jonathan says this at a wooden desk thinking about the medieval times where a lady may've sat where he sat writing a love letter.

"he pulled open his shirt and with his long sharp nails opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound so that I must either suffocate or swallow”

Mina says this after her traumatic vampire's "baptism of blood". She is asked to recount the details by Van Helsing. The scene has correlations to rape but the gender roles seem to be switched. Dracula is some perversion of a mother feeding a babe.

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

Jonathan says this as the carriage he is in is being surrounded by wolves and there is seemingly no possible out of this situation.

You would help these men to hunt me and frustrate me in my designs! […] And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for a while; and shall later on be my companion and my helper. […] You have aided in thwarting me; now you shall come to my call."

Dracula says this to Mina as he forces her to drink from his chest which later allows her to be able to mentally connect with him. Also, speaks to the new goal that the group has. They are motivated for a true cause. Mina would be lost to the undead if they don't do anything soon as Dracula is immortal and Mina would join him when she dies.

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

Dr. Seward says this and it shows how heartbroken he is in response to Mina's rejection of his proposal. He then decides to bury himself in work to find a new purpose to continue living.

"Never did tombs look so ghastly white; never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom; […] and never did the far-away howling of dogs send such a woeful presage through the night."

This is part of the entry in Dr. Seward's diary which details the entire group's adventure in laying Lucy to proper rest. Puts forth a kind of ominous feeling which foreshadows their discovery that Lucy has become a shadow of what she once was.

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way—even by death—and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment."

John Seward says this the day after Mina's unfortunate run in with the Count and she has been marked unholy. This is made in response to their breakfasting which was done with a general cheerfulness despite their situation.

"But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths; or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!"

Van Helsing says this to Arthur in order to convince him that they have to open Lucy's tomb. Arthur, shocked that they would defile Lucy's grave like this, asks if this is a joke. Van Helsing responds that though they are in for some rough times, it is necessary that they do because otherwise Lucy will never reach Heaven.

"Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic, when the fit of escaping is upon him!"

Dr. Seward says this as Renfield embarks on his first escape out of the mental asylum. Renfield, unbeknownst to Dr. Seward, is making a trip to the house next door where Dracula dwells.

"Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength."

Jonathan says this to Mina as she asks why they don't just settle down since Dracula is making a retreat back to his homeland to which Jonathan firmly asserts that while Dracula is immortal, their lives are finite and limited. Also, Mina won't be cleansed then. This part in particular is concerning Dracula as he notes Dracula's greatest weapon is mankind's rationally thinking minds that wouldn't comprehend the things they're doing.

"I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore."

Lucy says this to Mina.

"Ah, well, poor girl, there is peace for her at last. It is the end!"
He turned to me, and said with grave solemnity:-
"Not so; alas! not so. It is only the beginning!"

Dr. Seward says this to Van Helsing. Dramatic irony pervades much of the beginnings of the book as we know of Dracula's interference and role much more earlier before the rest of the characters catches on. This even applies here. Dr. Seward unknowingly thinks that with Lucy's death, this was the end of the troubles. But Van Helsing's moves to put garlic and a cross in Lucy's tomb proves that this was but the beginning.

"feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help to soothe me."

Jonathan says this in regards to his daily journal entry habit which he says offer some kind of comfort to him as it proves that what he sees is not merely a figment of his imagination.

"There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration!"

Dr. Seward says this in regards to Renfield, the most interesting lunatic according to him. Dr. Seward notices that Renfield keeps a continuous tally of something in a notebook and an uncanny love for animals.

"I want to cut off her head and take out her heart."

Van Helsing says this to Dr. Seward. The importance of this lies in his need of doing so. If they do not prevent this upcoming problem in advance, vampire Lucy will overturn the entire Victorian society from its roots.

"Truly there is no such thing as finality."

Dr. Seward says this as he starts a new entry though he declared his last one to be the conclusion with a "Finis".

"These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotant Being. How these madmen give themselves away!"

Dr. Seward says this about Renfield. Dr. Seward suspects that since a religious mania had seized over Renfield, Renfield must have fallen under some God complex.

"But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together."

Van Helsing says this to Jonathan as inspiration. Although Dracula is powerful with his powers over nature, animals, and life, they have each other.

"My Life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships […] Believe, me, then, that I come here full of respect for you, and you have given me hope—hope, not in what I am seeking of, but that there are good women still left to make life happy"

Van Helsing says this to Mina as he comes to retrieve the notes Mina has regarding her correspondence with Lucy. Mina has the Victorian ideals for a women projected onto her. She is there only to represent this with her maternity and subjugation to men.

"he means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow."

Van Helsing says this to the group as they wait for Dracula to come back in order to ambush him. He professes how Dracula has a child-brain, the imperfectly developed mind of a criminal. He acts upon the same patterns that he has committed in the past. But he is learning, adapting.

"All men are mad in some way or the other; and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen, too—the rest of the world."

Van Helsing says this to Dr. Seward in addition to his telling of Dr. Seward to not reveal Lucy's condition to Arthur. Don't want him making some drastic decision just because he is in love.

"The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told."

Dracula says this to Jonathan as he reminisces of the good old days where his ancestry, including him, had participated in great exploits.

"every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool"

Jonathan says this as he is traveling to Dracula's castle and notices that the farther east he goes, the more that the people are instated in their superstitions and folklore.

"on our favourite seat, the silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white […] something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell"

Mina says this as she looks for Lucy after she goes on one of her sleepwalking trips. This is one of the more apparent moments where Dracula is preying on Lucy.

"You think to baffle me, you—with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher's. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! […] My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed.”

Dracula says this to the crew. He is forced on the retreat as the group has purified all of his dirt-filled coffins but one. Dracula has all the time in the world to exact his wrath on mankind whereas the group are limited by their mortal lives. He will target the men through the women and their deviant forms of sexual expression. Through which, the patriarchal model of a society will fall with their authority and masculinity taken away.

"What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?"

Jonathan Harker says this in fearful awe after witnessing the count crawl across the castle wall much like a lizard. Idea that since evolution is possible, the count has devolved from a human into a animal hybrid.

"I felt this big, sorrowing man's head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were my own child.”

Mina expresses this comment on the Victorian model of women as being maternal. Mina is not overly sexualized in the book like Lucy is. Instead, she is considered by the men around her in a matriarchal sense only offering her support, compassion and company the only way a "woman" can. She yields herself completely to the men and do not threaten to undermine them, even talking in gushing tones of their strength and righteousness.

"Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise."

Van Helsing says to Dr. Seward after he asks if he could see Renfield as he was interested in the sudden intelligence that he has acquired.

"we could hear the rising wind, for it moaned and whistled through the rocks, and the branches of the trees crashed together as we swept along. It grew colder and colder still, and fine, powdery snow began to fall"

Jonathan says this as Dracula, posing as the carriage driver, takes him to his castle.

"If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me."

Quincey says this to Lucy as she tells him that her heart belongs to another man.

"All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject of great floods."

Jonathan says this as he marvels of the scenery that he passes on his way to Dracula's castle.

"Souls and memories can do strange things during trance."

Van Helsing says this about Mina's diminishing ability to see Dracula's location while hypnotized using their connection that was established after she was given the vampire's blood baptism.

"You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chop-sticks, as to try to interest me, about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me."

Renfield says this after Dr. Seward reminds him of his tendency to eat flies and other animals. Renfield goes on to reveal that he is uncomfortable with the idea that all living things have a soul that linger around. He doesn't want to be responsible for them. He is burdened by a consciousness.

"my only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and mystery which seemed closing around me."

Jonathan says this after being told by Dracula that he is to sleep only in his room if he is to get a safe, good nights rest.

"I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. Despair has its own calms."

Jonathan muses about this as he quickly falls asleep after his attempt to send letters to his Peter Hawkins and Mina through the Szgany failed.

"Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy—with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and every speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo? Have you felt the Vampire's lips upon your throat?"

Jonathan says this in direct object of Van Helsing's suggestion that he take Mina with him to go to Dracula's castle for work has to be done.

"The tomb in the day-time, and when wreathed with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough; but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead […], the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been imagined."

Dr. Seward says this when the men had all gathered in Lucy's tomb to do what initially, they had been so opposed to. They have learned that Lucy has become a corruption of the pure and meek individual she once was.

"Alone with the dead! I dare not go out"

Lucy says this as a series of preplanned events set off by the count leaves her absolutely vulnerable to his advances. This will lead to the final blow that would take her away from the men.

"water sleeps, and the enemy is sleepless."

Mina says this as she comments on the location of Dracula while hypnotized.

"She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her.”

An attendee who was assigned to deal with Lucy's corpse. He notices, much like everyone else, that Lucy was even more beautiful in her death. Foreshadowing.

"What a fine fellow is Quincey! I believe in my heart of hearts that he suffered as much about Lucy's death as any of us; but he bore himself through it like a moral Viking. If America can go on breeding men like that, she will be a power in the world indeed."

John Seward says this in praise of the blood transfusion that Quincey went through for Lucy.

"IThere was over me a yearning for sleep, in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must now be for the better."

Jonathan Harker says this the day after Mina went through the experience of having to drink Dracula's blood.

"as sleep begins to flirt with me, a new fear comes: that I may have been foolish in thus depriving myself of the power of waking.”

Mina says this the night before she falls victim to Dracula. This is important because readers don't know if her fate will be the same as Lucy's or if she will rise above it.

"I comforted him as well as I could. In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder, a sob in unison, are expressions of sympathy dear to a man's heart."

This is the sympathy and condolences that Dr. Seward could offer to Arthur as a man. This only emphasizes the Mina's maternalism.

"I promise!" and as I said it I felt that from that instant a door had been shut between us."

Jonathan agrees to withhold any information that the men discuss over Dracula from Mina because they decided that the communication between Mina and Dracula could be two way, against their advantage.

"I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me."

Jonathan says this in anticipation of his escape from his room and scaling the castle walls to get to Dracula's walls.

"You must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears and alarms."

Van Helsing says this to Lucy

"I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there."

Mina Harker says this regarding the final moments where Dracula was finally freed from his cursed and meaningless existence. Redemption is basically guaranteed despite all that you do in this life. Bring back religion in the new age of science and thinking.

"take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous that you think in this country."

Dracula says this to Jonathan after Jonathan finds out that Dracula has no reflection. Jonathan seems ready to discard any supernatural elements, as a result, by the time he realizes it is too late.

"He will not admit anything, and down faces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views."

Mina says this about about Mr. Swales. His cynicism seems to come from his joking approach to death.

"We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience; and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you."

Van Helsing says this to Lucy over his "treatment" to surround her at all times with garlic.

"I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know; but I do wish that he would write, if it were only a single line."

Mina says this about her worrying about Jonathan who hadn't written back in months. Little does she know, Jonathan has brain fever (post traumatic stress disorder) and is resting in a sanatorium.

"Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly"

Dr. Seward uses this metaphor to compare Renfield to that of a bird. Despite willing allowing him free reign, Renfield would not take the bait and instead remained inside his room.

"there are things done to-day in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity”

Van Helsing says this to Dr. Seward in order to get him to understand that the science we know today would've been considered witchcraft and impossible centuries ago. So should keep mind open to new possibilities.

"He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little truth check the rush of the big truth […] we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe."

Van Helsing says this to Dr. Seward to get him to believe, to not let previous beliefs influence his reception of new, strange ones.

"Shortly before ten o'clock the stillness of the air grew quite oppressive, and the band on the pier, with its lively French air, was like a dischord in the great harmony of nature's silence. A little after midnight came a strange sound from over the sea, and high overhead the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming."

Mina says this about the upcoming storm that was about to hit Whitby. The strange thing is that the approach of Dracula is always marked by some change in the usual weather.

“a sort of journal which I can write in whenever I feel inclined. I do not suppose there will be much interest to other people; but it is not intended for them."

Mina says this about her habit to continuously write in her journal. All of this may not have been possible if it wasn't for her rigid following of this.

"the devil may work against us for all he’s worth, but God sends us men when we want them"

Van Helsing says this in regards to the opportune timing of Arthur's arrival at the Westerna household. Lucy is in desperate need of a blood transfusion and Arthur, her lover, is the perfect man for it.

"there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back."

Jonathan says this about the door that would be opened by Dracula and he unknowingly entering and becoming a prisoner of the castle.

"a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp […], throwing long quivering shadows as it flickered in the draught of the open door."

Jonathan using physiognomy. Dracula is one of the few characters whose physical appearance is described in great detail. Guess Bram wanted to put a face on the Antichrist or epitome of evil.

"May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?"

Van Helsing asks this key question to Arthur. If Arthur cannot get past his love for Lucy, then Lucy will run rampant and cause mayhem with her newly acquired anti-Victorian attitude.

"He came back full of life and hope and determination."

Mina says this about the wonderful transformation that Jonathan had taken after having the assurance to regain trust in himself again.

"Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!"

Mina's undying optimism is portrayed in this statement by her. She figures that she had already experienced the worst so anything else life throws her way will be an improvement.