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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.
Elizabeth Kostova
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Elizabeth Kostova
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 26
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Elizabeth Johnson Kostova
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He brought his great hand to rest on an early edition of Bram Stoker's novel and smiled, but said nothing. Then he moved quietly away into another section.
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In the end, I always act from the heart, even if I also value reason and tradition. I wish I could explain why, but I don't know.
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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.
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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 comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light.
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And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?
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...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?
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It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
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For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.
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I wasn't brought up to be dazzled by money or fame.
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Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
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Today I will go to wait for her again, because I cannot help it, because my whole being seems now to be bound up in the being of one so different from myself and yet so exquisitely familiar that I can scarely understand what has happened.
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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.
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