Quoting Too Much from Dracula

While reading Dracula, I can't stop taking down quotes coming from the book! The book has a lot of awesome and memorable quotes! Since I am feeling generous today, I will share the quotes that I feel too awesome. Also, this would be my belated Holloween post. So folks, Happy Holloween!

"A brave man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble. You're a man, and no mistake. Well, the devil may work against us for all he's worth, but God sends us men when we want them." - Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, Chapter 12

"Not so! alas! not so. It is only the beginning!" - Van Helsing, Chapter 12, Scene after Lucy Westenra died.

"... There will be pain for us all; but it will not be pain, nor this pain will last. We and you too --- you most of all, my dear boy --- will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all be well!" - Van Helsing, Chapter 13

"I suppose a cry does us all good at times --- clears the air as other rain does." - Wilhemina "Mina" Harker, Chapter 14

"... 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 strange things that make one doubt if they may be mad or sane." - Van Helsing, Chapter 14

"... You do not let your eyes nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you." - Van Helsing, Chapter 14, About Lucy's cause of death

"'Well I shall tell you. My thesis is this: I want you to believe.'

'To believe in what?'

'To believe in things that you cannot. Let me illustrate...'" - The scene before Van Helsing reveals that Lucy is the "bloofer lady", the one who is responsible on the tinctures found in the children

"Is it possible that love is all subjective or all objective?" - Dr. John Seward, Chapter 15, after he saw Lucy as a vampire

"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve in part. Believe me, we are now on the verge of one..." - Van Helsing, Chapter 15

"If ever a face meant death --- if looks could kill --- we saw it at that moment." - Dr. Seward, Chapter 16

"You are always right; this is life and death. All chambers are alike to the doctor; and even where they not they are all as one to me to-night..." - Van Helsing, Chapter 21

You all noticed that I am mostly quoting from Van Helsing. Seriously, his quotes are wicked awesome! He is the only character who is sort of perfect that I really admire for his awesomeness!

Classic Novels

Last time, I went to the bookstore to buy books, bought Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Louis Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events No. 2: The Reptile Room. If you noticed, two of them are classics and the other an awesome novel. Classics right now are taking my hours in reading.

The first classic novel I have read is Pride and Prejudice, surrendered because of these factors: English is too deep for me back then (I was in 3rd grade when I read it) and too complex in my taste. Later on, my interest in classics returned thanks to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Even though I didn’t finish the book because it is a library book and I am very busy with other things, I have no choice but to return it. Aww. I wanna know what happened to Scout!

Later on, I read Catcher of the Rye by J.D. Salinger. The book is really great because it deals something about a student going home and all. Like To Kill a Mockingbird, I wasn’t able to finish it.

I became really more interested in classics thanks to George Orwell’s Animal Farm. A political novel with animals acting as humans, the novel is sort of a political satire that them, the setting of the novel is often compared in Stalinist Russia. Thus, my love for the author’s books began. Bought another of his novels, 1984, a book a about an alternate future where it is ruled by the Inner Party led by a face name Big Brother. All I can say about the novel is that, words can never explain the power and convincing factor of the book.

Right now, I am reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I am now ¼ of the novel and I will not stop till I know how Huck proved Jim is innocent and Huck proving himself that he is alive.