Just as I had come to this conclusion I heard a heavy step approaching behind the great door, and saw through the chinks the gleam of a coming light.… - Bram Stoker

"My Life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships...I have known so many good people and seen such nobility that I feel more than ever-and it has grown with my advancing years-the lonliness of my life. Believe, me, then, that I come here full of respect for you, and you have given me hope-hope, not in what I am seeking of, but that there are good women still left to make life happy." Dr Van Helsing to Mia Seward.

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.

I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. despair has it's own calms.