“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
“Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.” — Elizabeth Kostova History 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
“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
I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years. — Elizabeth Kostova Bulgarians 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
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
If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all… — Elizabeth Kostova History Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present… — Elizabeth Kostova Belief Copy Share Image
“People seem to believe that despair is the same as anguish, but it is not. It's true that despair is surrounded by… — Elizabeth Kostova Anguish Copy Share Image
“In my mortal life, I saw mainly those texts that the church sanctioned--the gospels and the Orthodox commentary on them, for example.… — Elizabeth Kostova Christianity Copy Share Image
My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in… — Elizabeth Kostova Flash Copy Share Image
“There are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after… — Elizabeth Kostova Memory Copy Share Image
In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks… — Elizabeth Kostova Careful Copy Share Image
“Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so… — Elizabeth Kostova Betrayal 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
“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
Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be… — Elizabeth Kostova Different 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 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
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is… — Elizabeth Kostova Claws 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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