Jass

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

“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

“Boys mystified me, although I dreamed vaguely of men.”
― Elizabeth Kostova

“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