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
looks faces firsts
For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.
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.
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,
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.
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.
moving heart eye
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.
teacher war book
It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)
book wonder someday
...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?