I’ll put off reading Lolita for six more years until she…

“Once I put it down I couldn't pick it back up.”

— Groucho Marx

“Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Van’s arrival…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Enchia-me o peito uma tempestade de soluços.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Queer, how I misinterpreted the designations of doom.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita' was written at a time when we were heavily listening to more dance, electronic, and trance, and then on the flip side we…

— Jessica Origliasso

“What I heard was but the melody of children at play, nothing but that, and so limpid was the air that within this vapor…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“A moment later I heard my sweetheart running up the stairs. My heart expanded with such force that it almost blotted me out. I…

— Vladimir Nabokov

I am a lolita. I don't believe in growing up. No matter how old I get I remain devoted to ruffles and frills

— Novala Takemoto

My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young matrix, her…

— Vladimir Nabokov

After so many attempts to mount a musical version of 'Lolita,' the project was well and truly dead by the summer of 1971. Chief…

— Sarah Weinman

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita'…

— Marisha Pessl

“Rope-skipping, hopscotch. That old woman in black who sat down next to me on my bench, on my rack of joy (a nymphet was…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“She was all rose and honey.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

And this is the only immortality you and i may share, my Lolita.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“As palavras sem a experiência não teriam qualquer significado.”

— Vladimir Nabokov