{"quotes":[{"text":". . . A wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["bram-stoker","dark","darkness","dracula","gloom","gloomy-night","howling-wind","imagination","johnathan-harker","johnathan-harker-s-journal","night","nighttime","vampire","vampires","wind"],"id":170728,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"There is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["bram-stoker","dracula","knowledge","reason","relate","relating-with-others","understand","understanding"],"id":195331,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"There are vampires. They are real, they are of our time, and they are here, close by, stalking us as we sleep...","author":"Nicky Raven","tags":["bram-stoker","dracula","real","sleep","stalking","vampires"],"id":296223,"author_id":"Nicky+Raven"},{"text":" For I determined that if Death came he should find me ready.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["bram-stoker","dracula","fiction"],"id":363647,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"In the attempt to find the just measure of horror and terror, I came upon the writing of Carole Gill whose work revealed a whole new dimension to me. The figure of the gothic child was there. Stoker's horror was there. Along with the romance! At the heart of her writing one stumbles upon a genuine search for that darkness we lost with the loss of Stoker.' ~Dr. Margarita Georgieva ~ Gothic Readings in The Dark.","author":"Carole Gill","tags":["bram-stoker","carole-gill","gothic-readings-in-the-dark","vampires"],"id":398521,"author_id":"Carole+Gill"},{"text":"By the way, I have a bone to pick with you.' Esperetta'Only one?' Velkan'At the moment.' Esperetta'Then I can't wait to hear it.' Velkan''Bram' and 'Stoker'?' Esperetta'It was fitting, I thought.' Velkan.","author":"Sherrilyn Kenyon","tags":["bram-stoker","dog-names","humorous"],"id":423192,"author_id":"Sherrilyn+Kenyon"},{"text":"It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["bram-stoker","dracula","dreams","imagination"],"id":435561,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}