Quotes by : Elizabeth Kostova

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

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

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

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

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

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.....

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....

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