DRACULA KEY QUOTES

Chapter One (2)

“a pair of very bright eyes, which seemed red in the lamplight”

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

Chapter Two (3)

“a great door, old and studded with large iron nails”

“peculiarly sharp white teeth”, “nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point”, “hairs in the centre of the palm”

“blood was trickling over my chin”

Chapter Three (3)

“sapphires”, “pearls”, “ruby”

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

“transformed with fury, the white teeth champing with rage, and the fair cheeks blazing with passion”

Chapter Four (3)

“old, ruined chapel”, “graveyard”, “roof was broken”

“on the lips were gouts of fresh blood”

“blaze of basilisk horror. The sight seemed to paralyse me, and the shovel turned in my hand and glanced from the face”

Chapter Five (3)

“practising short hand very assiduously”, “I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan”

“Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her”

‘Won’t you give me one kiss? It’ll be something to keep off the darkness”

Chapter Six (1)

‘her cheeks are lovely rose pink”

Chapter Seven (1)

“the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster”

Chapter Eight (3)

“something long and black, bending over the half-reclining white figure”

“white face and red, gleaming eyes”

“roses in her cheeks are fading”

Chapter Ten (4)

“She was ghastly, chalkily pale: the red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums”

“Now, little miss, here is your medicine. Drink it off, like a good child”

“He is so young and strong and of blood so pure”

“great bundle of white flowers”

Chapter Eleven (3)

“lying like Ophelia”

“room was awfully stuffy”, “horrible, strong-smelling flowers”, “heavy odour”, “I took them all away”

“a crash at the window”

Chapter Twelve (3)

“teeth, which thus looked positively longer and sharper”

“Lucy had […] torn away the garlic flowers”

“a spasm as of rage flit like a shadow over her face; the sharp teeth champed”

Chapter Thirteen (2)

“He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache”

“children […] have been slightly torn or wounded in the throat”, “terribly weak, and looked quite emaciated”

Chapter Fourteen (1)

“he came to London with its teeming million”

Chapter Sixteen (5)

“Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell-fire”, “her eyes blazed with unholy light”, “callous as a devil”

“lips were crimson with fresh blood, and that the stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn-death robe”

“he struck with all his might”, “The body shook and quivered and twisted in wild contortions” “great drops of sweat sprang out on his forehead, and his breath came in broken gasps”

“face of unequalled sweetness and purity”, “holy calm that lay like sunshine over the wasted face”

“she is not a grinning devil now - not any more a foul Thing for all eternity”

Chapter Seventeen (2)

“pearl among women”

“with a sob he laid his head on my shoulder”, “cried llike a wearied child”, “shook with emotion”

Chapter Eighteen (3)

“She has man’s brain”

“a blot on the face of God’s sunshine; an arrow in the side of Him who died for man”

“we have resources of science”, “tradition and superstition - are everything”

Chapter Nineteen (4)

“Somewhere, looking out from the shadow, I seemed to see the high lights of the Count’s evil face, the ridge of the nose, the red eyes, the red lips, the awful pallor”

“silver whistle”, “yelping of dogs”, “lifting their noses, began to howl”

“thin streak of mist that crept with almost imperceptible slowness across the grass towards the house”

“light of the gas shining like a red eye”, “livid white face bending over me”

Chapter Twenty-One (3)

“white-clad figure of his wife”, “tall, thin man, clad in black”

“right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom”

“opened a vein in his breast”, “pressed my mouth to the wound”, “blood which smeared her lips and cheeks and chin”

Chapter Twenty-Two (2)

“On your forehead I touch this piece of Sacred Wafer in the name of the Father, the Son, and —”

“Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh”

Chapter Twenty-Three (2)

“drawn, haggard old man”, “white hair”, “hollow burning eyes”, “grief-written lines”

“to wipe out this brute from the face of creation. I would sell my soul to do it”

Chapter Twenty-Four (3)

“horrid poison that has got into her veins”

“Vampire’s baptism of blood”

“it will take her […] at least three weeks to reach Varna; but we can travel overland to the same place in three days”

Chapter Twenty-Five (2)

“There is a posion in my blood, in my soul”

“We left Charing Cross on the morning of the 12th, got to Paris the same night”

Chapter Twenty-Seven (2)

“the eyes saw the sinking sun, and the look of hate in them turned to triumph. But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan’s great knife”

“the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight”

Note (2)

“Seven years ago we all went through the flames”

“The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation”