“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.” — Elizabeth Kostova Grant 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
“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
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
“He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.” — Elizabeth Kostova Lions 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 Hands 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 Ends 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
“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 Old letters 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“It was as if she could hear music, where there was no music.” — Elizabeth Kostova Hear Copy Share Image
“Obey and hate yourself, survive. Disobey, redeem yourself, perish.” — Elizabeth Kostova Disobey 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
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
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
“It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission.” — Elizabeth Kostova Learning Copy Share Image
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry… — Elizabeth Kostova Believe Copy Share Image
“And why should I do such a thing- tell you something that can only dismay you? Well, that is the nature of… — Elizabeth Kostova Dismay 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
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
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
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
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life -… — Elizabeth Kostova Angst 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
