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1. "-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it" ~ Elizabeth Kostova
2. "When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
3. "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
4. "I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
5. "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
6. "Faith is simply whatever is real to us." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
7. "It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
8. "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
9. "It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
10. "...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?" ~ Elizabeth Kostova
11. "I've read there is no such thing as a single tear, that old poetic trope. And perhaps there isn't, since hers was simply a companion to my own." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
12. "As an adult I have often known that peculiar legacy time brings to the traveler: the longing to seek out a place a second time, to find deliberately what we stumbled on once before, to recapture the feeling of discovery. Sometimes we search out again even a place that was not remarkable itself - we look for it simply because we remember it. If we do find it, of course, everything is different. The rough-hewn door is still there, but it's much smaller; the day is cloudy instead of brilliant; it's spring instead of autumn; we're alone instead of with three friends. Or worse, with three friends instead of alone." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
13. "As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
14. "Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
15. "..then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you..." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
16. "Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)" ~ Elizabeth Kostova
17. "The heart does not go backward. Only the mind." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
18. "There is survival and survival, the historian learns to his grief. The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millenia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
19. "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
20. "Recently abandoned women can be complicated." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
21. "It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
22. "We Gypsies know that where Jews are killed, Gypsies are always murthered too. And then a lot of other people, usually." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
23. "In my mortal life, I saw mainly those texts that the church sanctioned--the gospels and the Orthodox commentary on them, for example. These works were of no use to me, in the end." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
24. "Then draw everything. Do a hundred drawings a day,' he said fiercely. 'And remember that it's a hellish life." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
25. "Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet through a half-opened door, can fade out after a while and become an outline." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
26. "A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
27. "Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an epilogue, and after that you're inclined to go on wondering about the characters or imagining that their lives continue without you, dear reader. Until you forget most of that book, you're stuck puzzling over what happened to them after you closed it." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
28. "It gave me a feeling of temporary acceptance into that elite community, to stroll across the quad at his side. It also gave me my first faint quiver of sexual belonging, the elusive feeling that if I slipped my hand into his as we walked along, a door would fall open somewhere in the long wall of reality as I knew it, never to be closed again." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
29. "One evening I let a stranger buy me a round of a local specialty called, whimsically, amnesia..." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
30. "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
31. "Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
32. "And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?" ~ Elizabeth Kostova
33. "My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
34. "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
35. "I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
36. "I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
37. "It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)" ~ Elizabeth Kostova
38. "He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
39. "[I]t seemed to me now that a Catholic church was the right companion for all these horrors. Didn't Catholicism deal with blood and resurrected flesh on a daily basis? Wasn't it expert in superstition? I somehow doubted that the hospitable plain Protestant chapels that dotted the university could be much help; they didn't look qualified to wrestle with the undead. I felt sure those big square Puritan churches on the town green would be helpless in the face of a European vampire. A little witch burning was more in their line--something limited to the neighbors." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
40. "And why should I do such a thing- tell you something that can only dismay you? Well, that is the nature of love: it is brutal in its demands." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
41. "These are works of history about your century, the twentieth. A fine century-I look forward to the rest of it." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
42. "He said there is a place in Gaul, the oldest church in their part of the world, where some of the Latin monks have outwitted death by secret means. He offered to sell me their secrets, which he has inscribed in a book."The abbot shudders. "God preserve us from such heresies," he says hastily. "I am certain, my son, that you refused this temptation."Dracula smiles. "You know I am fond of books." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
43. "Ich verstehe mit achtzig was ich mit siebzig noch nicht verstehen konnte, naemlich dass man am Ende so gut wie allen vergibt, nur sich selbst nicht." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
44. "I lay awake for hours in my twin bed next to the other, empty bed, feeling and hearing the spruces, the hemlocks, the rhododendron scraping at the partly open window, the verdant mountain out there in the night, the burgeoning of nature that did not seem to include me. And when, my restless body asked my teeming brain, had I agreed to be excluded?" ~ Elizabeth Kostova
45. "Hay cosas menores, pero aun así muy importantes. No es amable. No sabe cuándo ha de decir algo que consuele y cuándo hay que callar. La historia le importa un pimiento. No tiene ojos grises dulces ni cejas pobladas, ni se sube las mangas hasta los codos. —La miré fijamente, y ahora me miró con valentía decidida—. En suma, el mayor problema de él es que no es tú." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
46. "Manchmal gibt es kaum etwas Schwierigeres, als zu jemandem zu sprechen, der ueber die Macht des Schweigens verfuegt." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
47. "Strangers are strange to each other." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
48. "Der Glaube ist das, was fuer uns real ist." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
49. "She ate like a polite wolf." ~ Elizabeth Kostova
50. "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
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