Lisa

“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― 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

“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”
― Elizabeth Kostovia, The Historian