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121 " Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. —Van Helsing "
― Lydia Kang , Opium and Absinthe
122 " her female descendants do, in fact, have as much backbone and fire as she has. "
123 " 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. But I’m content, for it’s comin’ to me, my deary, and comin’ quick. "
124 " with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of. "
125 " crescendo of inevitability. "
126 " Chlorine, or Allene, "
127 " It’s about light versus darkness. It’s the primordial battle . . . good and evil, innocence against rotten hearts. Christ and Satan, if that’s your take. That’s why the Dracula angle is everything to this story. We all want to destroy the evil. "
128 " inability of a vampire to cross running water. "
129 " Dracula and Mina share absinthe together. The scene "
130 " Stoker’s Dracula, by Leonard Wolf—an amazing compendium of illustrations, photos, and notes that brought an incredible depth to the original story. "
131 " Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything, cowritten by me and my journalist friend Nate Pedersen "
132 " Opiates are for broken bones, not broken hearts. "
133 " Despair has its own calms. —Jonathan Harker "
134 " I want you to believe . . . To believe in things that you cannot. —Van Helsing Bram Stoker Dracula "
135 " Morphine addicts, also called morphinomaniacs, were oftentimes wealthy women being treated for all sorts of ailments. When heroin came on the market at the end of the century, it was thought not to be addictive. The original manufacturer was Bayer (as in the Bayer that makes aspirin today). These snippets of medical history were both fascinating and sadly still timely, given our opioid addiction crisis today. "
136 " newsies’ strike and found out that all those events occurred in 1899, "
137 " Bram Stoker’s Dracula—the original book—was released in the United States in 1899. I thought, Huh. "
138 " neurasthenia "
139 " Sylvester Graham. "
140 " There are darknesses in life and there are lights; you are one of the lights. "