Lolita Quotes

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

If you can get to be you, why can't I get to be me?

I was a daisy fresh girl and look what you've done to me.

I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her.-Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)

It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed.

And I thought to myself how those fast little articles forget everything, everything, while we, old lovers, treasure every inch of their nymphancy

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

He wrote to his father every day. His platoon called his dad a girlfriend.

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

Don't touch me

How do you circumvent a mind bent upon lying to get away from the truth?

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Even in death, her mother was winning.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

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