“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. — Elizabeth Kostova Atheist 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 are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Dracula Copy Share Image
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. — Elizabeth Kostova Book Copy Share Image
“Didn’t Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn’t it expert in superstition?” — Elizabeth Kostova Superstition Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.” — Elizabeth Kostova History Copy Share Image
“I preferred solitude anyway; it was the medium in which I had been raised, in which I swam comfortably.” — Elizabeth Kostova Solitude Copy Share Image
I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested… — Elizabeth Kostova Audience Copy Share Image
It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of… — Elizabeth Kostova Brilliance Copy Share Image
“I don't think painters have the answers about a painting except the painting itself. Anyway, a painting has to have some kind… — Elizabeth Kostova Artist Copy Share Image
He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually. — Elizabeth Kostova Gypsies Copy Share Image
I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was… — Elizabeth Kostova Companion Copy Share Image
“Doesn't every love express itself this way, with the seeds of both its flowering and its ruin in the very first words,… — Elizabeth Kostova Flowering Copy Share Image
“Then he said a strange thing, but to himself. 'They lived, didn't they?' And I said yes, that when one reads old… — 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
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
Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“I remembered some of what I'd read in the past: the small group of the original Impressionists, including one woman-Berthe Morisot- who'd… — Elizabeth Kostova Artist Copy Share Image
“He was my husband, my apartment mate, my soul mate, the father of the little plant in my confused soil, the lover… — Elizabeth Kostova Father Copy Share Image
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his… — Elizabeth Kostova Attention Copy Share Image
“It gave me a feeling of temporary acceptance into that elite community, to stroll across the quad at his side. It also… — Elizabeth Kostova Belonging Copy Share Image
“He said there is a place in Gaul, the oldest church in their part of the world, where some of the Latin… — Elizabeth Kostova Death Copy Share Image
“The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.” — Elizabeth Kostova Education Copy Share Image
“Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish.” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming.” — Elizabeth Kostova Art history Copy Share Image
“He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.” — Elizabeth Kostova Lions Copy Share Image
“It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission.” — Elizabeth Kostova Learning Copy Share Image
I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years. — Elizabeth Kostova Bulgarians Copy Share Image
For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face. — Elizabeth Kostova Excitement Copy Share Image
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? — Elizabeth Kostova Book Copy Share Image
It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's… — Elizabeth Kostova Finding the right person Copy Share Image
He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the… — Elizabeth Kostova Book Copy Share Image
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary… — Elizabeth Kostova Ability Copy Share Image
