..then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you... — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist. — Elizabeth Kostova Anthropologist Copy Share Image
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. — Elizabeth Kostova Beautiful Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.” — Elizabeth Kostova Artist Copy Share Image
“when the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. — Elizabeth Kostova Deeds Copy Share Image
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. — Elizabeth Kostova Atheist Copy Share Image
“Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet through a half-opened door, can fade out… — Elizabeth Kostova Everyday life Copy Share Image
In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant… — Elizabeth Kostova Book Copy Share Image
...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries. — Elizabeth Kostova Agony Copy Share Image
“-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was… — Elizabeth Kostova Art Copy Share Image
I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be… — Elizabeth Kostova Books Copy Share Image
“Ich verstehe mit achtzig was ich mit siebzig noch nicht verstehen konnte, naemlich dass man am Ende so gut wie allen vergibt,… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with,… — Elizabeth Kostova Eras Copy Share Image
Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova Body Copy Share Image
“I lay awake for hours in my twin bed next to the other, empty bed, feeling and hearing the spruces, the hemlocks,… — Elizabeth Kostova Nature Copy Share Image
“Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an… — Elizabeth Kostova Books Copy Share Image
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my… — Elizabeth Kostova Ancient Copy Share Image
“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds… — Elizabeth Kostova Feminism Copy Share Image
“As an adult I have often known that peculiar legacy time brings to the traveler: the longing to seek out a place… — Elizabeth Kostova Nostalgia Copy Share Image
“Above all, he encourages her to paint, nodding with approval at even her most unusual experiments with color, light, rough brushwork [...].… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“Didn’t Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn’t it expert in superstition? I somehow doubted that the… — Elizabeth Kostova Little Witch Copy Share Image
“[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood… — Elizabeth Kostova Catholicism Copy Share Image
“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should… — Elizabeth Kostova Dracula Copy Share Image
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