Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is."

"Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece"

"We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break."

"And the rest is rust and stardust."

"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight."