The Jewel of Seven Stars Quotes

“We learn of great things by little experiences.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“It seems that there is never to be any perfect rest. Even in Eden the snake rears its head among the laden boughs of the Tree of Knowledge. The silence of the dreamless night is broken by the roar of the avalanche; the hissing of sudden floods; the clanging of the engine bell marking its sweep through a sleeping American town; the clanking of distant paddles over the sea....”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“We learn of great things by little experiences. The history of ages is but an indefinite repetition of the history of hours. The record of a soul is but a multiple of the story of a moment.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“Love and patience are all that make for happiness in this world; or in the world of the past or of the future; of the living or the dead. She dreamed her dream; and that is all that any of us can ask!”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“They are done with now. Whatever comes - life or death - there will be no purpose in their using now.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“His will and his determination were as strong as ever; but the purely physical side of him had been weakened somewhat.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“What was before us was death, and nothing else. All the romance and sentiment of fancy had disappeared.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“What it is to be in constant dread of some unknown danger which may come at any time and in any form.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“The clue is intended for seeing eyes.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“It may not be of prime importance, but in a matter like this, where all is unknown, we must take it that everything is important.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“I am lost in the depth of my own love for you.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“The spirit of her mother is within her.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“Were it you, in such case would you not struggle by all means to achieve the object of your life and hope.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“In her record there was no expression of love to be sought or found.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“My first weapon in her defence was truth. I must know and understand; I might then be able to act.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“She would say to me sweet and pleasant things which she had often said before, she would seem most unlike herself. It was almost as if she was speaking parrot-like or at dictation of one who could real words or acts, but not thoughts.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“I had over me that delicious sense of security which comes with the consciousness that love is mutual.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“For my own part, if I had any doubt as to going on, the look on Margaret's face would have reassured me. It was fearless; it was intense; it was full of a divine calm.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“For this, and all else which may come, I believe we are prepared!”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“For good or ill we must here stand by our chances, and abide by results.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“As the heads of our house have always insisted on preserving the secret.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“I have no one belonging to me or dependent on me. I am quite alone, and free to do what I like with my own - including my life!”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“Love is trust; and you must trust me in danger as well as in joy. You and I must stand beside Father in this unknown peril. Together we shall come through it; or together we shall fail; together we shall die.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“Mother's daughter does as mother would have done herself!”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“I was in the presence of a strong man, I should show something of my own strength.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“It seemed as if my brain had found a voice. But the voice was not complete; there was some other thought; darker and deeper; which lay behind it, whose voice had not sounded as yet.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars

“It is not a very long journey for oneself, but it seemed endlessly long when waiting for someone else to take it.”
― Bram Stoker, The Jewel of Seven Stars