“I appealed to her stale flesh very seldom, only in cases of great urgency and despair.” — Anonymous 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
“She stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.” — Michelle Hodkin 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
I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
“I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more… — Keira Michelle Telford Copy Share Image
“The softness and fragility of baby animals caused us the same intense pain. She wanted to be a nurse in some famished… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Nabokov changed my life," Max said. "I was going to be a writer, and then I read Lolita and I decided to… — Daniels, Leslie 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 am a Lolita. I do not believe in growing up. No matter how old I get, I shall remain devoted to… — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
“ Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name.” — Vladimir Nabokov 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
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
“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
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
The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Actually, after three years, I realised that the opening scenes of 'Polladhavan' were inspired by 'Lolita,' in which the lead character says,… — Vetrimaaran Copy Share Image
“Actually she was at least in her late twenties (I never established her exact age for even her passport lied) and had… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only been defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely,… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Speak, Memory is strictly autobiographic. There is nothing autobiographic in Lolita.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It's a long story that involves copious quantities of alcohol and Lolita.” — Michelle Hodkin Copy Share Image
