Elizabeth Kostova Quotes - Page 2

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• It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Teacher, War, Book

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• ...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

  Book, Wonder, Someday

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• 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

  Plato, Needs, Problem

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Summer, Thinking, Water

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Fame

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Together, Remember, Topsoil

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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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• 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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• It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Terrible, Touched, Trusted

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

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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'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.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Understanding, Preparation, Belief

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

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Lonely, Romance, Ruins

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

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Boys, Men

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

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• Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Real, Historical, Events

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• I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Writing, Trying, Pages

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