“ I felt sure…that these creatures were never threatened by the grimness of history, either. Elizabeth Kostova
“ I felt sure, glaring at the children as they settled onto the sand with their shovels, that these creatures were never threatened by the grimness of history, either. Then, looking down on their glossy… Elizabeth Kostova
“ Looking down on their glossy heads, I realized that they were indeed threatened; they were simply unaware of it. We are all vulnerable. 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
“ This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought a… Elizabeth Kostova
“ I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'. Elizabeth Kostova
“ The strange thing, you know, is that Stalin openly admired Ivan the Terrible. Two leaders who were willing to crush and kill their own people-to do anything necessary- in order to consolidate their po… Elizabeth Kostova
“ 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… Elizabeth Kostova
“ [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?… Elizabeth Kostova
“ 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
“ He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight. Elizabeth Kostova
“ 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… Elizabeth Kostova
“ 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
“ It’s the reward of the business (historian), to look history in the eye & say, ‘I know who you are. You can’t fool me. Elizabeth Kostova
“ The thing that haunted me that day, however, as I closed my notebook and put my coat on to go home, was not my ghostly image of Dracula, or the description of impalement, but the fact that these thing… Elizabeth Kostova
