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Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1) QUOTES

Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1) QUOTES

1 " There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie has just served me. Have a care, lest you wind up the equivalent of some damned regimental water-bearer.'

In India, I knew a water-bearer who was a better man than most. "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

2 " Good things come to an end, bad things have to be stopped. "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

3 " Quite a few vampires, especially the elders, regarded those who creep through graveyard shadows in batwing capes and fingerless black gloves as an Edinburgh gentleman might look upon a Yankee with a single Scots grandparent who swathes himself in kilts and tartan sashes, prefaces every remark with quotes from Burns or Scott and affects a fondness for bagpipes and haggis. "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

4 " Love is always a species of insanity. If "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

5 " Impaler,’ she declared, ‘I have no equal. "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

6 " Power is based, at bottom, on the ability to kill; thus the means of killing have to be available, even if only to a select few. "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

7 " God, the vampire women! What a pack of foaming she-cats! "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

8 " W ere you aware,’ began Lord Ruthven, ‘that there are people in these isles whose sole objection to the marriage of our dear Queen – Victoria Regina, Empress of India, et cetera – to Vlad Dracula – known as Tepes, quondam Prince of Wallachia – is that the happy bridegroom happened once to be, in a fashion I shan’t pretend to understand, a Roman Catholic? "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

9 " Quería destruir a un monstruo, no convertirme yo en uno "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

10 " Relevance, Wilde once explained, was a careless habit that should not be over-indulged. "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

11 " Marvellous apparatuses, like miracle cures, are beset with unpredictable side-effects. In the twentieth century, new means of setting down human thought may precipitate an avalanche of worthless digression. "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

12 " Places, she told herself, were not evil: they were what people made of them. "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)

13 " -La plata y la estaca me romperán el corazón, mas los hombres jamás me herirán. "

― Kim Newman , Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)