#lolita

"Why did I hope we would be happy abroad? A change of environment is that traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely."

"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."

"I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else."

"Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name."