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

  Movimiento, Corazón, Ojo

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.147, Hachette UK

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• It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Home, Library, Walks

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.263, Hachette UK

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

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Book, Long, Temptation

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Facts, Sometimes, Reaching

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Life, Thinking, Evil

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• ...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Blood, Agony, Different

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• 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

  Individual Effort, Generations, Lifetime

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Heart, Wish, Tradition

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• What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let you know if it's Europe or fairyland, when I get there. First, Snagov - I set out tomorrow.

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  Believe, Thinking, Europe

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• 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 historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history's terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth. And once you've seen that truth - really seen it - you can't look away.

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  Father, Real, Historical

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• The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Heart, Mind, Doe

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• I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you've seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind's eye?

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Correr, Creer, Ojo

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• Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Complicated, Abandoned

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• Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Real

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• 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

  Home, Joy, Strange

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.235, Hachette UK

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• For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.

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  Miradas, rostros, primeras veces

  "The Historian". Book by Elizabeth Kostova, June, 2005.

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• It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Growing Up, Voice, Paper

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• 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

  Home, Mind, Brutality

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Historian”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Fall, Passion, People

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• I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Nasty, Practicals, Fellows

  Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown

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• Then you must say to her, 'Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you.

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  Corazón, Roto

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• 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

  Plato, Needs, Problem

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• I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Years, Bulgarians, Cooks

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• Es una pena que la historia de las mujeres gire en torno a los hombres: primero los chicos, luego otros chicos, luego los hombres. Me recuerda a la forma en que nuestros libros de texto escolares de historia trataban sobre guerras y elecciones, una guerra tras otra, con los aburridos periodos de paz omitidos cada vez que se producían. (Nuestros profesores lo deploraban y añadían unidades adicionales sobre historia social y movimientos de protesta, pero ése seguía siendo el mensaje de los libros).

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Teacher, War, Book

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• 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

  Girl, Book, College

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