You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
Elizabeth KostovaIt was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.
Elizabeth KostovaStichwörter: books home library
Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened.
Elizabeth KostovaStichwörter: love
Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.
Elizabeth KostovaWhen you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
Elizabeth KostovaStichwörter: books
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let you know if it's Europe or fairyland, when I get there. First, Snagov - I set out tomorrow.
Elizabeth KostovaStichwörter: dracula carpathians historian transylvania
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 KostovaStichwörter: history danger vampire
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.
Elizabeth KostovaStichwörter: words beauty language
As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.
Elizabeth KostovaStichwörter: history danger survival
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
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