“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.” WantBookLibraryStrangerLibrary Books Book:The Historian Source: The Historian
“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.” LongBookHandleTemptation Book:The Historian Source: The Historian
“...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?” BookPleasureWonderSomedayStumbling Author:Elizabeth Kostova
“And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?” GivingBookGiving UpSmellConsentOpen Book Author:Elizabeth Kostova
“It's a shame for women'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 whenever they occurred. (Our teachers deplored this and added extra units about social history and protest movements, but that was still the message of the books.)” MenWayFirstsStillsBookWarSchoolSocialBoysTeacherMovementPeriodsMessagesShameElectionExtrasDullProtestUnitsTextbooksSocial HistoryHistory TextbooksProtest MovementsSchool History Author:Elizabeth Kostova
“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.” BookGirlRichCollegeFilledAngstMy FutureSpoiledGreat BookDevastatedBanalityCollideRich Girl Author:Elizabeth Kostova
“No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.” BookPurposeFeltWrittenReader Author:Elizabeth Kostova
