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
“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
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
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
“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
“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 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
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
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
