And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? — Elizabeth Kostova Book 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary… — Elizabeth Kostova Ability 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 Copy Share Image
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical… — Elizabeth Kostova 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
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 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 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
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
“Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an… — Elizabeth Kostova Books Copy Share Image
Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can… — Elizabeth Kostova 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
“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
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints. — Elizabeth Kostova Atheist 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
“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.” — Elizabeth Kostova Artist Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
“when the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After” — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places. — Elizabeth Kostova Beautiful 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 Copy Share Image
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist. — Elizabeth Kostova Anthropologist 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
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
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 Copy Share Image
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually. — Elizabeth Kostova Gypsies 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 Copy Share Image
