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

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

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

Elizabeth Kostova's 2005 blockbuster, The Historian, — Deborah Harkness

Faith is simply whatever is real to us. — Elizabeth Kostova

Recently abandoned women can be complicated. — Elizabeth Kostova

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strangers are strange to each other. — Elizabeth Kostova

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. — 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 with which I have lived. — Elizabeth Kostova

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She ate like a polite wolf. — Elizabeth Kostova

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

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

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

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

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

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