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Elizabeth Kostova quotes: These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it.

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

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming.

A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: Dracula - " He paused. "Dracula - Vlad Tepes - is still alive.

Dracula - " He paused. "Dracula - Vlad Tepes - is still alive.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: One evening I let a stranger buy me a round of a local specialty called, whimsically, amnesia ...

One evening I let a stranger buy me a round of a local specialty called, whimsically, amnesia ...

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: Strangers are strange to each other.

Strangers are strange to each other.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life.

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

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.

Not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: In this spot, he is housed in evil. Reader, unbury him with a word.

In this spot, he is housed in evil. Reader, unbury him with a word.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: What will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

What will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: when the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After

when the sun rose at the quarry it turned the world lavender and gold. After

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: ..then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...

..then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: I preferred solitude anyway; it was the medium in which I had been raised, in which I swam comfortably.

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

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

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

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: I wondered if a novel could have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality.

I wondered if a novel could have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality.

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

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

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: And why should I do such a thing- tell you something that can only dismay you? Well, that is the nature of love: it is brutal in its demands.

And why should I do such a thing- tell you something that can only dismay you? Well, that is the nature of love: it is brutal in its demands.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission.

It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.

He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: She ate like a polite wolf.

She ate like a polite wolf.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: There are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after day after a long period.

There are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after day after a long period.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

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

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

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past.

The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past.

Elizabeth Kostova quotes: If my conscience had been a person at that moment, I might have strangled him.

If my conscience had been a person at that moment, I might have strangled him.