{"author":"Elizabeth Kostova","author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["history","intriguing","life","readers","secrets"],"id":1501,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"Recently abandoned women can be complicated.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["abandonment","complicated","women"],"id":10377,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"It was strange, I reflected.. That even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["circumstances","joy","life","weird"],"id":16468,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"-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.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["destiny","happiness","inspirational"],"id":38198,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"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 distantes de casa e de tudo que nos é familiar, possam existir esses momentos de incontestável alegria.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["hope","inspiration"],"id":40202,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"It's a shame for a woman's history to be all about men-first boys, then other boys, then men, men, men. It reminds me of the way our school history textbooks were all about wars and elections, one war after another, with the dull periods of peace skimmed over when they happened.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["feminism","growing-up","history","men-and-women"],"id":40492,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["books"],"id":48681,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["books","home","library"],"id":59966,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["evil","fascination","human-history"],"id":92974,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"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.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["relationships"],"id":104541,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}