“It’s the reward of the business (historian), to look history in the eye & say, ‘I know who you are. You can’t fool me.” HistoryKnowingHistorian Book:The Historian Source: The Historian
“Looking back at that moment, I understand that I had lived in books so long, in my narrow university setting, that I had become compressed by them internally. Suddenly, in this echoing house of Byzantium-one of the wonders of history-my spirit leaped out of its confines. I knew in that instant that, whatever happened, I could never go back to my old constraints. I wanted to follow life upward, to expand with it outward, the way this enormous interior swelled upward and outward. My heart swelled with it...” FreedomHistoryTravelLife And LivingFreedom QuotesTravel QuotesReality Verses Fantasy Book:The Historian Source: The Historian
“This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt and thought and then died, as we did - as we would.” HistoryLivingHistorian Author:Elizabeth Kostova
“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.” HistoryGrowing UpFeminismMen And Women Book:The Swan Thieves Source: The Swan Thieves
“Looking down on their glossy heads, I realized that they were indeed threatened; they were simply unaware of it. We are all vulnerable.” HistoryHistorianDark AcademiaDraculaThe Historian Book:The Historian Source: The Historian
“I felt sure, glaring at the children as they settled onto the sand with their shovels, that these creatures were never threatened by the grimness of history, either. Then, looking down on their glossy heads, I realized that they were indeed threatened; they were simply unaware of it. We were all vulnerable.” HistoryDraculaVlad The ImpalerDangers Of History Book:The Historian Source: The Historian
“The thing that haunted me that day, however, as I closed my notebook and put my coat on to go home, was not my ghostly image of Dracula, or the description of impalement, but the fact that these things had- apparently- actually occurred. If I listened too closely, I thought, I would hear the screams of the boys, of the ‘large family’ dying together. For all his attention to my historical education, my father had neglected to tell me this: history’s terrible moments were real. I understand now, decades later, that he could never have told me. Only history itself can convince you of such a truth. And once you’ve seen that truth-really seen it-you can’t look away.” TruthHistoryDraculaVlad The ImpalerHistory As A Guide Book:The Historian Source: The Historian
