30 Quotes About Nabokov

Line 130: I never bounced a ball or swung a batFrankly I too never excelled in soccer and cricket; I am a passable horseman, a vigorous though unorthodox skier, a good skater, a tricky wrestler, and an enthusiastic mountain climber.

I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I shall try to exist.

She was an extravagantly slender girl. Her ribs showed. The conspicuous knobs of her hipbones framed a hollowed abdomen, so flat as to belie the notion of "belly." Her exquisite bone structure immediately slipped into a novel - became in fact the secret structure of that novel, besides supporting a number of poems.

¡Que rara es la vida! La suerte nos abandona cuando más propicia deseamos que nos sea.

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)

La gente que se afeita se rejuvenece un día todas las mañanas.

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?

It's exactly my sense of existing - a fragment, a wisp of color.