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

-Elizabeth Kostova
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You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

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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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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.

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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 the . . . Read more

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

-Elizabeth Kostova
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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.

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Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

-Elizabeth Kostova
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