“-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”
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Kostova's interest in the Dracula legend began with the stories her father told her about the vampire when she was a child. The family lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1972, while her father was teaching at a local university; during that year, the family traveled across Europe. According to Kostova, "It was the formative experience of my childhood." Kostova's interest in books and libraries began early as well. Her mother, a librarian, frequently took her and her sisters to the public library—they were each allowed to check out 30 books and had a special shelf for their library books. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Kostova
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“-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”
“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.”
“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?”
“I think it's important to recognise that 'The Da Vinci Code' opened up a vast new audience for a general readership interested in historical detective stories and research into history.”
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