In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.
Elizabeth Kostova...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 KostovaNo 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.
Elizabeth Kostova