“She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
“I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ...I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.”
― Lolita
― Lolita
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