For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. — Elizabeth Kostova Beautiful Copy Share Image
..then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you... — Elizabeth Kostova Broken 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
“when the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After” — Elizabeth Kostova Lavender 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
“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
There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence. — Elizabeth Kostova Harder Copy Share Image
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. — Elizabeth Kostova Home 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
...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
...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
“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
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
“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
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
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 Add 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
“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
My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any… — Elizabeth Kostova Backfire 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
“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
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me… — Elizabeth Kostova Book 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 Comprehension 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 19th century 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
“[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
“Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.” — Elizabeth Kostova History Copy Share Image
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