39 quotes found
“Leave your incidental Dick.”
“You have to be an artist and a madman...”
“I had possessed her - and she never knew it.”
“If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too”
“I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.”
“Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight”
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
“I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barredI would gather her in my arm...”
“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”
“We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall Jo...”
“I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.”
“a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues. In my youth I once read a French detective tale where the clues...”
“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.I was a strong lad and survived; but the poison was in the wound, and the wound remained ever open”
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, pla...”
“... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.”
“I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen 'King Lear,' neve...”
“There are gentle souls who would pronounce Lolita meaningless because it does not teach them anything. I am neither a reader nor a writer of didactic fiction, and, despite John Ray's assertion, Lol...”
“My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest past, nothing of her subsists within the hollows and dells o...”
“For some reason, I kept seeing itit trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retinaa radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.”
“The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today. Long after her death I ...”
“One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure thatwell, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, butwellsome day, any day, you will not come to live with...”
“Suddenly, as Avis clung to her fathers neck and ear while, with a casual arm, the man enveloped his lumpy and large offspring, I saw Lolitas smile lose all its light and become a frozen little shad...”
“The moral sense in mortals is the dutyWe have to pay on mortal sense of beauty.”
