QUOTES LOLITA

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I had, maybe, a little tiny crush on my stepfather.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“You took advantage of my trust, you abused it.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita “There are two kinds of surfer girls – horny ones and flat-ass ones.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I looked and the world around me was no longer the world; the world inside was no longer the world.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“No matter what sort of story it is, I hate those who tell it sloppily.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“You dropped a lighted match in my waters. It sizzles and quivers in the minnows and tadpoles.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita QUOTES FOR MAY DAY

“It was a pleasurable scream. There is no type of scream more delicious!” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I was up to something far more important than love: politics.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I’m a full-scale abomination.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Despair is the only appropriate description of my mood.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“America, they say, is not exactly a land made for love.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I do not rush into actuality.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Desire governed me wholly; I was longing to drink, to sleep, to dream.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“If you are interested in staying an adolescent, I have at least twenty thousand books written for adolescents that you might like to read.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“The mind of a girl of course is a peculiar labyrinth.” – Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita