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41 " granulomata "
― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe
42 " We learn from failure, not from success, "
43 " Don’t give up before you try. Defeat is particularly lethal early on in any journey; don’t let it be your compass. "
44 " Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. —Van Helsing "
45 " heder. "
46 " shtetl "
47 " Sylvester Graham’s "
48 " 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. —Jonathan Harker "
49 " pogroms "
50 " Hematophagy, "
51 " eligible men when she entered a ballroom. Those were expressions that minutely examined her flaws, quantified her, as if she were a piece of silver to be doled out and hoarded. This smile had the curious effect of making her want to smile, too, though nothing funny had been said. It was as if she’d been wanting such a smile all week long. "
52 " hemolysis, or the bursting of the red blood cells, would not have rendered them bloodless. "
53 " It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine. —Mina Harker "
54 " Animals, and theoretically vampires, bit their victims to kill, but most fangs were not made for neat puncture wounds and clean drinking afterward. And hollow fangs were never for sucking blood but for delivering venom. But perhaps a vampire was unlike any normal creature in the natural world? One thing was for sure. She needed to learn if any humans existed with the length of canine needed to puncture a neck, yet not leave a bite mark from below. "
55 " Freedom seemed to swell in her chest as she smiled. “No,” Tillie said. "
56 " A woman’s mind is ever in need of being uncaged. "
57 " phrenology. "
58 " Listen to them—the children of the night. What music they make! —Count Dracula "
59 " A person needs to really live to feel alive sometimes. "
60 " You might as well ask a man to eat molecules with a pair of chopsticks, as to try to interest me about the lesser carnivora, when I know of what is before me. —R. M. Renfield "