"The Historian" Quotes
A young woman discovers a dark family secret and embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about her father's research into the historical figure Dracula.
fiction | 704 pages | Published in 2005
Quotes
The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet.
There is nothing more poignant than a familiar face surrounded by so much strangeness.
The most important thing is to be alive when you are alive.
Belief is both prize & battlefield, within the mind & in the mind’s mirror, the world.
Beneath the uniformity of human experience there lies a great diversity, with its own laws, and its own guiding rules.
A place doesn't need to be special to be home.
Never forget, the secret of eternal life is in this - to be in the world as if you were not of it.
Vampires are even more mysterious than they are made out to be.
There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.
The world is strange when you're a stranger in it.
