Quotes by : Elizabeth Kostova

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

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

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else....

I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business,....

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,....

This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our....

It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men.....

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