Kostova Books Quotes

#1. You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Elizabeth Kostova

#2. Sometimes I think my past life was unrealized. I met a tragic end - it might have been a car over a cliff. But it's true, I came from another time and place, and landed in Paris Hilton's backyard.

Christine Ebersole

#3. When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

Elizabeth Kostova

#4. We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

Paul McCartney

#5. I love science fiction.

Moon Bloodgood

#6. You live to play in the playoffs. It's like your heart is ripped out.

Darcy Tucker

#7. Well, in any art there are a lot of technical things that you can get to like.

Donald Judd

#8. I had to learn slowly to open the door just a crack to let love in, maybe just a few seconds at a time. We all do.

David Roche

#9. It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

Elizabeth Kostova

#10. 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.

Elizabeth Kostova

#11. Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.

John Podhoretz

#12. I wouldn't let anyone say a bad word about Cheryl Cole.

Luke Pasqualino

#13. All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Abdurrahman Wahid

#14. And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

Elizabeth Kostova

#15. I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

Vanessa Carlton

#16. In the rare event that the Supreme Court refuses to play along there is always a perfectly legal, extra-constitutional, quasi-legislative, quasi-executive, quasi-judicial, 'independent' regulatory commission or executive agency to kill off or override constitutional protections.

Ilana Mercer

#17. What will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Elizabeth Kostova

#18. There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back - all their lives.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#19. Every woman is a hallway full of locked doors under different names: past, future, hopes, fears, lust, and love. Some men come with keys. Some men come with lick picks. Byron St. James comes with a chainsaw.

Jessica Gadziala