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Elizabeth Kostova Quotes

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Recently abandoned women can be complicated  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) 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 Quotes) I’ve always been interested in foreign relations. It’s my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we’d call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It’s very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) He can’t really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) My publishers are wonderful because they have let me write what I wanted to. They’re wise enough to know that, with any author who’s not simply writing formulas - who’s trying to create something new - pressuring them to do something for market purposes almost always backfires. I can’t imagine working under those circumstances, actually  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That’s all you need  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) The heart does not go backward. Only the mind  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) I wasn’t brought up to be dazzled by money or fame  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) Faith is simply whatever is real to us  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) It touched me to be trusted with something terrible  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don’t seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don’t see the point in doing that  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we’d call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It’s very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) ... History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn’t fade overnight or over centuries  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) I’ve always been interested in foreign relations. It’s my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) 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 endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes) It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it  (Elizabeth Kostova Quotes)
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