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
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
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 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 Painting 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
...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
“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 Blank page 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
“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
“He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.” — Elizabeth Kostova Lions 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
...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
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
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
“Ich verstehe mit achtzig was ich mit siebzig noch nicht verstehen konnte, naemlich dass man am Ende so gut wie allen vergibt,… — Elizabeth Kostova 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
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
“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
“I lay awake for hours in my twin bed next to the other, empty bed, feeling and hearing the spruces, the hemlocks,… — Elizabeth Kostova Nature Copy Share Image
“It was as if she could hear music, where there was no music.” — Elizabeth Kostova Music Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.” — Elizabeth Kostova History Copy Share Image
