What book has the words “I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians.”?”
Favorite first line from a book? I can’t think of one. So instead, I’m going to share some lines from the novel Dracula which have, for some mysterious reason, stuck in my head for some forty years. They’re from Jonathan Harker’s diary, describing how he felt when he was abandoned in front of Dracula’s castle at night: “It all seemed like a horrible nightmare to me, and I expected that I should suddenly awake, and find myself at home, with the dawn struggling in through the windows, as I had now and again felt in the morning after a day of overwork. But my flesh answered the pinching test, and my eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians. All I could do now was to be patient, and to wait the coming of morning.” When I’ve been in very difficult or sad circumstances, I think of that line: “I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians.” And I remind myself that no matter how terrible things seem, I just need to be patient, and wait the coming of morning. A
I’m going to share some lines from the novel Dracula which have, for some mysterious reason, stuck in my head for some forty years. They’re from Jonathan Harker’s diary, describing how he felt when he was abandoned in front of Dracula’s castle at night: “It all seemed like a horrible nightmare to me, and I expected that I should suddenly awake, and find myself at home, with the dawn struggling in through the windows, as I had now and again felt in the morning after a day of overwork. But my flesh answered the pinching test, and my eyes were not to be deceived. I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians. All I could do now was to be patient, and to wait the coming of morning.” When I’ve been in very difficult or sad circumstances, I think of that line: “I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians.” And I remind myself that no matter how terrible things seem, I just need to be patient, and wait the coming of morning. And morning almost always comes.
