Lolita Quote by Vladimir Nabokov Download Open image ““While you took a dull doll to pieces and threw its head away.”” — Vladimir Nabokov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lolita
“I tossed the doll at him. "Stop leaving these things laying around the house. It's weird." He caught it, dropping slightly under the sudden… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It’s not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“Like all children, you would have loved and admired her. You would have named your favorite doll after her…And then you would have poked… — Sally Hobart Alexander Copy Share Image
“The other dolls sat upon the shelf and looked straight before them, for it would never do to let grown-up men know that dolls… — Johnny Gruelle Copy Share Image
“Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out” — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
“I was always cutting my Barbie and Pollyanna dolls' hair. I lined them all up and put a cloth around their necks, like they… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
“As she worked, Anna glanced occasionally at the Flossie Flirt doll wedged at the end of a shelf. She had wanted one so violently… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
“...under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Ami azt illeti, Vannak kezdtek nagyon tetszeni a fák is, a csodák is meg az Adák is.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible. I cannot imagine it. Come on over here, you foolish little doe, and tell me on what day I shall die.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable… — Vladimir Nabokov 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 nymphet was… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“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 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 Asiatic country;… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“History, lie of our lives, mire of our loins. Our sins, our souls. Hiss-tih-ree: the tip of the pen taking a trip of three… — Brian Celio Copy Share Image
“Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand), the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, features a video filmed by Titanic director James… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“They are beautiful, heart-rendingly beautiful, those wilds, with a quality of wide-eyed, unsung, innocent surrender that my lacquered, toy-bright Swiss villages and exhaustively lauded… — 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 life, when… — novala takemoto 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 low stone… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image