39 quotes found
“They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent surrender that my lacquered, toy-bright Swiss villages and exhaustively lauded Alps no long...”
“I had possessed her - and she never knew it.”
“Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.”
“And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy”
“I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.”
“We fell to wrestling again. We rolled all over the floor, in each other's arms, like two huge helpless children. He was naked and goatish under his robe, and I felt suffocated as he rolled over me....”
“I notice I may have somehow mixed up two events, my visit with Rita to Briceland on our way to Cantrip, and our passing through Briceland again on our way back to New York, but such suffusions of s...”
“Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight”
“Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning,...”
“I would fight of course. Oh, I would fight. Better destroy everything than surrender her.”
“You must be careful. There are things that should never be given up. You must persevere.”
“In our hallway, ablaze with welcoming lights, my Lolita peeled off her sweater, shook her gemmed hair, stretched towards me two bare arms, raised one knee:Carry me upstairs, please. I feel sort of ...”
“The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling...”
“I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program,...”
“I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.”
“I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.”
“If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too”
“Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and natures reality, the deception was bearable. Unbearable pain began when chance entered the fray and deprived me of the smile meant for me.”
“and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth, or hoped for anywhere else. She was only the fai...”
