89 Quotes About Lolita

Ela era apenas a leve fragrância violeta, o suave eco de folha morta da ninfita que, no passado, me cevara com tão poucos gritos de prazer; um eco na margem de uma ravina avermelhada, com um bosque distante sob o céu branco, e folhas castanhas a entupir o ribeiro, é um derradeiro grito nas ervas secas. (p286)

With your little claws, Lolita.

Uvijek se možete pouzdati u ubojicu da će pisati kitnjastim stilom.

Humbert Humbert: You know, I've missed you terribly. Lolita Haze: I haven't missed you. In fact, I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you. Humbert Humbert: Oh? Lolita Haze: But it doesn't matter a bit, because you've stopped caring anyway. Humbert Humbert: What makes you say I've stopped caring for you? Lolita Haze: Well, you haven't even kissed me yet, have you?

Speak, Memory is strictly autobiographic. There is nothing autobiographic in Lolita.

Actually she was at least in her late twenties (I never established her exact age for even her passport lied) and had mislaid her virginity under circumstances that changed with her reminiscent moods.

As palavras sem a experiência não teriam qualquer significado.

While you took a dull doll to pieces and threw its head away.

And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only been defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night - every night, every night - the moment I feigned sleep.