Julka

“Thus with cautious steps, among deceived enemies, I circulated, plated with poetry, armored with rhymes, stout with another man's song, stiff with cardboard, bullet-proof at long last.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.”
― Stacy Schiff, Vera

“Come and be worshiped, come and be caressed, 270  My dark Vanessa, crimson-barred, my blest
My Admirable butterfly! Explain
How could you, in the gloam of Lilac Lane,
Have let uncouth, hysterical John Shade
Blubber your face, and ear, and shoulder blade?”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire