There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

The line is spoken in Bram Stoker’s novel *Dracula* (1897) during the band of vampire-hunters’ efforts to protect Mina Harker after she has been attacked and “tainted” by Dracula. In the epistolary narrative, the men repeatedly frame Mina as the group’s moral center—intelligent, compassionate, and spiritually steady—whose presence counters the fear, secrecy, and corruption associated with the Count. The compliment functions as reassurance at a moment when the characters are confronting both literal darkness (night, predation) and the psychological darkness of despair and guilt, emphasizing Mina’s role as a sustaining force for the group.

The quote sets up a stark moral and emotional contrast: “darknesses” represent suffering, evil, and the unknown, while “lights” signify hope, purity, and guidance. By calling the addressee “the light of all lights,” the speaker elevates her from merely comforting to almost sanctifying—an emblem of goodness that can orient others when ordinary courage fails. In *Dracula*, this rhetoric also underscores a Victorian moral framework in which spiritual integrity is treated as a real weapon against corruption. The line’s intensity suggests that the struggle is not only physical but also ethical: survival depends on preserving inner light against encroaching darkness.