Elizabeth Kostova

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

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

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As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws

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It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy

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It touched me to be trusted with something terrible