Century Quote by Elizabeth Kostova

“These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Then he said a strange thing, but to himself. 'They lived, didn't they?' And I said yes, that when one reads old letters one…

— Elizabeth Kostova

I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered…

— Elizabeth Kostova

We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually.

— Elizabeth Kostova

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

— Elizabeth Kostova

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion…

— Elizabeth Kostova

What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are…

— Elizabeth Kostova

Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we'd call it a soup. You can make it…

— Elizabeth Kostova

Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)

— Elizabeth Kostova

“I preferred solitude anyway; it was the medium in which I had been raised, in which I swam comfortably.”

— Elizabeth Kostova

The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.”

— Elizabeth Kostova