“It's a long story that involves copious quantities of alcohol and Lolita.” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
After so many attempts to mount a musical version of 'Lolita,' the project was well and truly dead by the summer of… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“I'm thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art, And this is the only… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“even then I would go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of your dear wan face, at the mere sound of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I am convinced, however, that in a certain magic and fateful way Lolita began with Annabel.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze. Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet. Age: five thousand three hundred days. Profession: none, or "starlet". Where are you hiding,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I first read 'Lolita' when I was 16, which I think is a little bit young. But it was a thrilling and… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“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.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark… — Hallgrimur Helgason Copy Share Image
“Rope-skipping, hopscotch. That old woman in black who sat down next to me on my bench, on my rack of joy (a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“No man can resist a woman who has an apple in her hand. It's theological. A woman with an apple in her… — Pia Pera Copy Share Image
“IV. There is a certain kind of girl who reads Lolita at fourteen and finds religion. I painted my eyes black and… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“What I heard was but the melody of children at play, nothing but that, and so limpid was the air that within… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“In our hallway, ablaze with welcoming lights, my Lolita peeled off her sweater, shook her gemmed hair, stretched towards me two bare… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Prizing elegance, sweet emotions, and fantasy more than morals and truth; wallowing in fleeting romance rather than trying to give meaning to… — novala takemoto Copy Share Image
“Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)” — Nipaporn Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The stars that sparkled, and the cars that parkled, and the bars, and the barmen, were presently taken over by her” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Lolita... is undeniably news in the world of books. Unfortunately, it is bad news. There are two equally serious reasons why it… — Orville Prescott Copy Share Image
She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita. She would… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Lolita: Oh my Carmen, my little Carmen… Humbert: Charmin’ Carmen. Started garglin’ Lolita: I remember those sultry nights Humbert: Those pre-raphaelites Lolita:… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“For my nymphet I needed a diminutive with a lyrical lilt to it. One of the most limpid and luminous letters is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Again and again as we discussed Lolita in that class, our discussions were colored by my students' hidden personal sorrows and joys.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“In a nervous and slender-leaved mimosa grove at the back of their villa we found a perch on the ruins of a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Music is a form that tends to give shape to rules, social mores, social attitudes, feelings—it does this in a very beautiful,… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
