James V. Hart

I have crossed oceans of time to find you.

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

Mina, to walk with me you must die to your breathing life and be reborn to mine.

Then, I give you life eternal. Everlasting love. The power of the storm. And the beasts of the earth. Walk with me to be my loving wife, forever.

I... love you too much to condemn you.

There is much to be learned from beasts.

Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the self. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But you are safe with me.

Listen to them: the children of the night. What sweet music they make.

I am the monster that breathing men would kill. I am Dracula.

I, who served the Cross. I, who commanded nations, hundreds of years before you were born.

I was betrayed. Look what your God has done to me!

I condemn you to living death. To eternal hunger for living blood.

The blood is the life… and it shall be mine.

Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways. And to you there shall be many strange things.

Take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous than you think.

A foul bauble of man's vanity. Perhaps you should grow a beard.

The letters I requested, have you written them?

Good. Should you leave these rooms, you will not by any chance go to sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old and has many bad memories. Be warned.

Is this my reward for defending God's church?

I RENOUNCE GOD! I RENOUNCE HIM! I shall rise from my own death, to avenge hers with all the powers of darkness.

I shall rise from my own death, to avenge hers with all the powers of darkness.

You will, I trust, excuse me if I do not join you. But, I have already dined, and I never drink… wine.

The Order of the Dracul, the Dragon. An ancient society, pledging my forefathers to defend the church against all enemies of Christ. Their relationship was not entirely… successful.

It is no laughing matter! We Draculs have a right to be proud! What devil or witch was ever so great as Atilla, whose blood flows in these veins? Blood...

Is too precious a thing in these times. The war-like days are over. The victories of my great race are but a tale to be told. I am the last of my kind.

Renfield, you have betrayed me!

Your impotent men with their foolish shells cannot protect you from my power. I condemn you to living death. To eternal hunger for living blood.

Yeah, she was in great pain! Then we cut off her head, and drove a stake through her heart, and burned it, and then she found peace.

Jack. Come here. I know how deeply you loved her. That is why you must trust me and believe.

Mr. Morris, your bullets will not harm him. He must be beheaded. I suggest you use your big Bowie knife.

Civilization, and syphilization, have advanced together.

We've all become God's madmen, all of us.

We are dealing with forces beyond all human experience, and enormous power. So guard her well. Otherwise, your precious Lucy will become a bitch of the Devil! A whore of darkness!

Hear me out, young man. Lucy is not a random victim, attacked by mere accident, you understand? No. She is a willing recruit, a breathless follower, a wanton follower. I dare say, a devoted disciple. She is the Devil's concubine!

She lives beyond the grace of God, a wanderer in the outer darkness. She is "vampyr", "nosferatu". These creatures do not die like the bee after the first sting, but instead grow strong and become immortal once infected by another nosferatu. So, my friends we fight not one beast but legions that go on age after age after age, feeding on the blood of the living.

Jack, you are a scientist; do you not think there are things in this Universe that you cannot understand and which are true?

Do not let your eyes see or your ears hear that which you cannot account for.

We have learned much. Dracula fears us. He fears time. For if he does not, why does he hurry so.

I'll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it's just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?

Is it possible that it didn't happen? Yes. As a scientist, I must concede that, I must volunteer that.

Because I can't. I... had an experience... I can't prove it, I can't even explain it, but everything that I know as a human being, everything that I am tells me that it was real! I was given something wonderful, something that changed me forever... A vision... of the universe, that tells us, undeniably, how tiny, and insignificant and how... rare, and precious we all are! A vision that tells us that we belong to something that is greater then ourselves, that we are *not*, that none of us are alone! I wish... I... could share that... I wish, that everyone, if only for one... moment, could feel... that awe, and humility, and hope. But... That continues to be my wish.

Mathematics is the only true universal language.

For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something, some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we? If this is a chance to find out even just a little part of that answer... I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?

Science fiction. Well you're right, it's crazy. In fact, it's even worse than that, nuts.

You wanna hear something really nutty? I heard of a couple guys who wanna build something called an "airplane," you know you get people to go in, and fly around like birds, it's ridiculous, right? And what about breaking the sound barrier, or rockets to the moon, or atomic energy, or a mission to Mars? Science fiction, right? Look, all I'm asking, is for you to just have the tiniest bit of vision. You know, to just sit back for one minute and look at the big picture. To take a chance on something that just might end up being the most profoundly impactful moment for humanity, for the history… of history.

This isn't a person-to-person call. You can't possibly think that a civilization sending this kind of message would intend it just for Americans.

You want to classify prime numbers now?

Well, I suppose it would be, how did you do it? How did you evolve, how did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself?

You know, there are four hundred billion stars out there, just in our galaxy alone. If only one out of a million of those had planets, and just of out of a million of those had life, and just one out of a million of those had intelligent life; there would be literally millions of civilizations out there.

Some... celestial event... no... no words, no words...to describe it. Poetry! They should've sent a poet. So beautiful... beautiful... so beautiful, so beautiful. I had no idea.

Those are primes! 2,3,5,7, those are all prime numbers and there's no way that's a natural phenomenon!

So what's more likely? That an all-powerful, mysterious God created the Universe, and decided not to give any proof of his existence? Or, that He simply doesn't exist at all, and that we created Him, so that we wouldn't have to feel so small and alone?

I read your book.

You want me to quote you? "Ironically, the thing people are most hungry for - meaning - is the one thing science hasn't been able to give them."

Come on! It's like you're saying that science killed God. What if science simply revealed that He never existed in the first place?

I've been to Sunday school a few times.

I kept asking all these really annoying questions like "Where did Mrs. Cain come from?" And pretty soon they asked my dad if he wouldn't mind keeping me home from now on.

What I meant to say is that the message was written in the language of science. Now if it had been religious in nature it should have taken form of a burning bush or a big booming voice from the sky.