"-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it"
- Elizabeth Kostova
"Ao sairmos para o anoitecer dourado das ruas bizantinas, refleti como era estranho que, mesmo sob as circunstâncias mais extraordinárias, durante episódios mais perturbadores da vida, nos lugares mais..."
"Faith is simply whatever is real to us."
"My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood."
"It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home."
"When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation."
"You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book."
"And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?"
"Recently abandoned women can be complicated."
"Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of co..."