Quotes by : Elizabeth Kostova

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart,....

-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I....

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

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

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

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

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it....

It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of....

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