“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it.”

— Elizabeth Kostova, book The Historian

A Note to the Reader
Source: The Historian (2005)
Context: As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claw.

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