He bowed in a courtly way as he replied: “I am Dracula. and I bid you welcome, Mr Harker, to my house. Come in; the night air is chill, and you must need to eat and rest.
Good boy,” said Dr. Van Helsing. “Brave boy. Quincey is all man. God bless him for it.
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” Seeing, I suppose, some expression in my face strange to him, he added, “Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.
She came into the room with an easy gracefulness which would at once command the respect of any lunatic, for easiness is one of the qualities mad people most respect.
Well, the devil may work against us for all he’s worth, but God sends us men when we want them.
It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.
Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, ‘May I come in?’ is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, ‘I am here.
I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health and strength give love rein, and in thought and feeling he can wander where he wills.
If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of.
We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways.
He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.
I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible.
The fame of an actor is won in minutes and seconds, not in years. The latter are only helpful in the recurrence of opportunities; in the possibilities of repetition.
Bila kita berhadapan dengan kengerian yang begitu hebat, barulah kita mengerti apa arti kengerian itu sebenarnya.
The attendant thinks it is some form of religious mania which has seized him. If so, we must look for squalls, for a strong man with homicidal and religious mania at once might be dangerous. The combination is a dreadful one.
There is 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.
26 July. – I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It is like whispering to one’s self and listening at the same time.
His face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden fierce, sidelong look which meant killing.
It’s better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.
How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me! Beware how you meddle with him, or you’ll have to deal with me.