{"author":"Bram Stoker","author_id":"Bram+Stoker","total_quotes":66,"quotes":[{"text":"But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["like-mindedness","purpose","strength","strong","together","together-in-spirit"],"id":872,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"Some of the 'New Women' writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won't condescend in future to accept; she will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it, too!","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["feminism","marriage"],"id":1925,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["laughter"],"id":9605,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"I have been so long masterthat I would be master still, or at least that none othershould be master of me.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["dracula","master","stoker","vampire"],"id":13632,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["bravery","courage","hope"],"id":40687,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["dracula","laugh","life","misery","van-helsing","world"],"id":43566,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"These infinitesimal distinctions between man and man are too paltry for an Omnipotent Being. How these madmengive themselves away! The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity seesno difference between an eagle and a sparrow.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["compassion","god","idolatry"],"id":51997,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"Are we to have nothing tonight?' said one of them, with a low laugh, as she pointed to the bag which he had thrown upon the floor, and which moved as though there were some living thing within it. For answer he nodded his head. One of the women jumped forward and opened it. If my ears did not deceive me there was a gasp and a low wail, as of a half smothered child. The women closed round, whilst I was aghast with horror. But as I looked, they disappeared, and with them the dreadful bag.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["horror"],"id":54533,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["action","courage"],"id":64788,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["health","love","selfishness","sickness"],"id":79158,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":66,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}