“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
“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
“The Girl Scout’s motto is also mine. I fill my life with worthwhile deeds such as — well, never mind what. My… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Thus, neither of us is alive when the reader opens this book. But while the blood still throbs through my writing hand,… — Vladimir Nabakov Copy Share Image
“ Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“She stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
“for did it not mean I was losing my darling, just when I had secretly made her mine?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I appealed to her stale flesh very seldom, only in cases of great urgency and despair.” — Anonymous 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 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
“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
“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
“I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her. -Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)” — Nipaporn Baldwin Copy Share Image
