To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.
– Elizabeth Kostova
Related Quotes:
- … I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad. – 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
- As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. – Elizabeth Kostova
- It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home. – Elizabeth Kostova
- When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. – Elizabeth Kostova
- You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. – Elizabeth Kostova
- And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? – Elizabeth Kostova
- Recently abandoned women can be complicated. – 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
- 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
- It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. – Elizabeth Kostova
- He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight. – 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
- Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. – Marcel Proust
- [I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. – David Foster Wallace
- A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved. – Gerard de Marigny
- From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother’s words–perceptive and many others–have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me. – Karen Swallow Prior
- A kind word sends vibes of love, if we are perceptive, if we know how love permeates and proliferates with this little gesture of giving. – Balroop Singh
- Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive – Lee Child
- …graced by some delicate, perceptive and fine-boned writing, is at the heart of the book, and Creel gets it all just right. – Publishers Weekly
- Exaggeration misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive. – Eliza Cook
- You don’t like to talk to people, do you? I mean, slamming the door in my face was a clue that was hard to miss. I’m perceptive like that. – Susannah Sandlin
- Be perceptive.Be progressive.Be proactive.Be productive. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History – Ahmed Farrag
- Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
- History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history – ETC Wanyanwu
- You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. – Anthony Doerr
- A book was mere paper splattered with ink until a reader’s mind gave it life. – Elizabeth Langston
- If you don’t make history, you just become history! – Sanjai Velayudhan
- If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. – Albert Camus
- History isn’t what happened, history is just what historians tell us. – Julian Barnes
- History is not nostalgic art, but history is ibrah, lessons, that we can pull to the present, to prepare for a better future,- -105 – Ahmad Fuadi
- History is the lie. History’s words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception. – Courtney M Privett
- Read History ToCreate History – K Kapoor
- History narrates stories about great men from the past,write your story now and make history – Mohammed Sekouty
- History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends. – Karl Marx
- Presidents make history. I’m just a tool of history. – Chris Weitz
- History was once the future, the future will create history. – Daniel J Hill
- The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons. – Edwin Powell Hubble
- As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons. – Harper Lee