Famous Elizabeth Kostova Quotes

  • As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. – 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

  • 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

    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

  • In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don’t know. – Elizabeth Kostova

    In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don’t know.– Elizabeth Kostova

  • It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. – Elizabeth Kostova

    It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.– Elizabeth Kostova

  • The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That’s all you need. – Elizabeth Kostova

    The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That’s all you need.– Elizabeth Kostova

  • To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history. – Elizabeth Kostova

    To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.– Elizabeth Kostova

  • … I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad. – Elizabeth Kostova

    … I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.– Elizabeth Kostova

  • It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it. – Elizabeth Kostova

    It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.– Elizabeth Kostova

  • Recently abandoned women can be complicated. – Elizabeth Kostova

    Recently abandoned women can be complicated.– Elizabeth Kostova

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

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