Jass > Jass's Quotes

“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.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“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 Kostova, The Historian

“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 Kostova, La historiadora

“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 Swan Thieves

“Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.”
― 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, The Swan Thieves

“I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.”
― Elizabeth Kostova

“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”
― Anne Rice

“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty's dead.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“Don't talk to me about people who are nice, 'cause I've spent my whole life in ruins over people who are nice.”
― Morrissey