Kostova Books Quotes & Sayings

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

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. — Elizabeth Kostova

Would you please please please please please please please stop talking? — Ernest Hemingway,

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.) — Elizabeth Kostova

It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common. — William Shakespeare

What will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find? — Elizabeth Kostova

Marriages are like certain books, a story where you turn the last page and you think it's over and then there's an epilogue, and after that you're inclined to go on wondering about the characters or imagining that their lives continue without you, dear reader. Until you forget most of that book, you're stuck puzzling over what happened to them after you closed it. — Elizabeth Kostova

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers — Ruth Benedict

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. — Elizabeth Kostova

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. — John Milton

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an international ban since 1989, and that 60% of forest elephants have already been wiped out. At this rate, experts say populations will become extinct in the next decade. No one needs ivory. — Ian Somerhalder

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. — Elizabeth Kostova

I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life - spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality. — Elizabeth Kostova

He said there is a place in Gaul, the oldest church in their part of the world, where some of the Latin monks have outwitted death by secret means. He offered to sell me their secrets, which he has inscribed in a book."
The abbot shudders. "God preserve us from such heresies," he says hastily. "I am certain, my son, that you refused this temptation."
Dracula smiles. "You know I am fond of books. — Elizabeth Kostova