Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Kostova
Elizabeth Johnson Kostovais an American author best known for her debut novel The Historian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth26 December 1964
CountryUnited States of America
passion past invoke
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.
remember found anthropologists
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.
heart broken
..then you must say to her, ‘Madame, I observe that your heart is broken. Allow me to repair it for you...
talking silence moments
There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.
beautiful historical
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
real historical details
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,
looks faces firsts
For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.
Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)
running believe eye
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?
complicated abandoned
Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
blood agony different
...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.
heart mind doe
The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.
home library walks
It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.
life thinking evil
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.