It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

Natalie Bakopoulos has that rare gift, the ability to imagine a traumatic historical event in the form of individual lives and ordinary details. The Green Shore is compelling, personal, and full of quietly real moments.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

I love to cook and I've cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.

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