You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. — Elizabeth Kostova Book 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
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
“Didn’t Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn’t it expert in superstition?” — 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
“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova Language 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
..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
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
“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.” — Elizabeth Kostova History 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
“[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
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 Circumstances 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 Copy Share Image
“when the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After” — Elizabeth Kostova Sun 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
“Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish.” — 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 Time Copy Share Image
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. — Elizabeth Kostova Home Copy Share Image
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. — Elizabeth Kostova Atheist Copy Share Image
