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“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita. Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, an initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“It's the sea, some men take to it. Some men it takes.”
― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“I am your number one fan”
― Stephen King, Misery

“It was just a stage I was going through.”
― Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”
― Stephen King, It

“FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”
― Red in Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King , Different Seasons

“there's no harm in hoping for the best as long as you're prepared for the worst.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“We all float down here!”
― Stephen King, It

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Some people are easier to love when you don't have to be around them.”
― Irvine Welsh

“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― Stephen King , The Stand

“If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.”
― Kenzaburo Oe

“The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.”
― Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Words without experience are meaningless.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“If I don't have red, I use blue.”
― Pablo Picasso

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“සඳ එළිය කැටි ගැසුණු සුදු වටොර ය. ගවොම පිරිමදින දෙතන ලප තුඩු ය. මීන චංචල කිඳුරු දෑස ය.

හදිසියේ ම පොළොව පලාගෙන සර්පයා උඩට මතු විය. මම ඇයට නොපෙනෙන්නට ඌ පයින් පාගා ගතිමි.”
― කේ. කේ. සමන් කුමාර, සර්පයකු හා සටන් වැද