Imagine, Dracula a pawn in the hands of the infidel. I wasted no time there-I learned everything I could about them, so that I might surpass them all. That was when I vowed to make history, not to be its victim.
Manchmal gibt es kaum etwas Schwierigeres, als zu jemandem zu sprechen, der ueber die Macht des Schweigens verfuegt.
The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you’ve seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind’s eye?
Recently abandoned women can be complicated.
Bulgarians eat tarator every single day in summer. They think of it as salad although we’d call it a soup. You can make it as thick or thin as you like depending on how much water you add. It’s very practical in summer because yogurt cools the body faster than water, but the water hydrates you.
In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called “by myself”; I didn’t know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then – ruins more than that, if you’re not careful.
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don’t see the point in doing that.
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.
I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.
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.
I was filled with angst in college, that I struggled with the question of my future, the meaning of my life – spoiled sheltered rich girl collides with great books and is devastated by her own banality.
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
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.
These atheist cultures were certainly diligent in preserving the relics of their saints.
I’ve noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.
Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.
For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.
I love to cook and I’ve cooked a lot of Bulgarian food over the years.