...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. - Elizabeth Kostova
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
- Elizabeth Kostova
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at th… - Elizabeth Kostova
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at th…
The heart does not go backward. Only the mind. - Elizabeth Kostova
The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endang… - Elizabeth Kostova
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endang…
In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know. - Elizabeth Kostova
In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.
...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries. - Elizabeth Kostova
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. - Elizabeth Kostova
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. - Elizabeth Kostova
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my … - Elizabeth Kostova
The thing that most haunted me that day, however...was the fact that these things had - apparently - actually occurred...For all his attention to my …
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