Elizabeth Kostova Quotes

Festina Lente (hurry In Slowly)

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.

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.

I Wondered Why She Craved This Knowledge And Found Myself Remembering That She Was, After All, An Anthropologist.

In Those Days, I Still Thoroughly Enjoyed The Romance I Called "by Myself"; I Didn't Know Yet How It Gets Lonely, Picks Up A Sharp Edge Later On That Ruins A Day Now And Then-- Ruins More Than That, If You're Not Careful.

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.

And How Could Anyone Consent To Give Up The Smell Of Open Books, Old Or New?

It Touched Me To Be Trusted With Something Terrible.

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.

Natalie Bakopoulos Has That Rare Gift, The Ability To Imagine A Traumatic Historical Event In The Form Of Individual Lives And Ordinary Details. The Green Shore Is Compelling, Personal, And Full Of Quietly Real Moments.

I Wasn't Brought Up To Be Dazzled By Money Or Fame.

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.