Quotes by : Elizabeth Kostova

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

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive....

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

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain....

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

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with,....

... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

This time I felt my own face redden. Talking with this woman was like sitting still for a series of slaps,....

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.