“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...”

“You have to be an artist and a madman...”

“And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy”

“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”

“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.”

“No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He cares, I do not. I do not give a damn for public morals, in America or ...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”