Even someone you've inhabited rooms with, and seen naked everyday, seen sitting on the toilet through a half-opened door, can fade out after a while and become an outline.
Elizabeth KostovaTag: everyday-life
It's a shame for a woman'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 when they happened.
Elizabeth KostovaTag: growing-up history feminism men-and-women
And why should I do such a thing- tell you something that can only dismay you? Well, that is the nature of love: it is brutal in its demands.
Elizabeth KostovaTag: love
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 KostovaAs you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
Elizabeth KostovaTag: evil fascination human-history
Si tuvieras que elegir entre la cordura, tu vida tal como la recuerdas, antes que la verdadera inestabilidad, ¿qué elegirías como manera adecuada para vivir de un estudioso?
Elizabeth KostovaTag: dracula novel vampires research
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.
Elizabeth KostovaFor the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.
Elizabeth KostovaAs an adult I have often known that peculiar legacy time brings to the traveler: the longing to seek out a place a second time, to find deliberately what we stumbled on once before, to recapture the feeling of discovery. Sometimes we search out again even a place that was not remarkable itself - we look for it simply because we remember it. If we do find it, of course, everything is different. The rough-hewn door is still there, but it's much smaller; the day is cloudy instead of brilliant; it's spring instead of autumn; we're alone instead of with three friends. Or worse, with three friends instead of alone.
Elizabeth KostovaThere are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after day after a long period.
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