“A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming.” — Elizabeth Kostova Art history 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
“It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission.” — Elizabeth Kostova Learning 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
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? — Elizabeth Kostova Book 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
“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
“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
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
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with,… — Elizabeth Kostova Eras 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
“-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
...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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new… — Elizabeth Kostova 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 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
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. — Elizabeth Kostova Book Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.” — Elizabeth Kostova History 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
“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.” — Elizabeth Kostova 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
I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one. — Elizabeth Kostova Dracula Copy Share Image
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. — Elizabeth Kostova Home 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 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
My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in… — Elizabeth Kostova 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
“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
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
