Elizabeth Kostova Quotes - Page 2

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Heart, Broken

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Talking, Silence, Moments

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.

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  Girl, Book, College

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Years, Bulgarians, Cooks

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• 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

  Passion, Past, My Own

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Beautiful, Historical

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• 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

  People, Matter, Always Alone

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Swan Thieves”, p.222, Hachette UK

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• 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 as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It's very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.

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  Summer, Thinking, Water

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• I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Thinking, Historical, Important

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They're wise enough to know that, with any author who's not simply writing formulas - who's trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can't imagine working under those circumstances, actually.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Wise, Writing, Trying

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• No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book, Purpose, Reader

  "Bigger than Dan Brown" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Boys, Men

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book, Library, Want

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Giving Up, Book, Smell

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• In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

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  Lonely, Romance, Ruins

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Swan Thieves”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.

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  Understanding, Preparation, Belief

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.249, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Tears, Poetic, Tropes

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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

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  Remember, Found, Anthropologists

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.354, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Together, Remember, Topsoil

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• It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

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  Terrible, Touched, Trusted

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Atheist, Saint, Culture

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Hands, Said, Stoker

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  People, Gypsy, Jew

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.322, Hachette UK

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