💬 Quotes

"To nie nasze zdolności ukazują, kim naprawdę jesteśmy, lecz nasze wybory."

"The truth isn't always a fixed point. Sometimes, it’s a direction."

"My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973."

"When you are dead, you dream of the people you left behind."

"I had been alive for fourteen years. I started to look at the people I had left behind and saw how they were changing. They were becoming people I didn't know."

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections - sometimes tenuous, sometimes made of steel - that grew among the people I had left behind."

"I wasn't lost, or gone. I was here. I was just... elsewhere."

"Take a good look at your life, because you never know when it will be taken away from you, and then you will be looking back at it, wishing you had cherished it more."

"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."

"The boy whose religion is of the head, and not of the heart, is a hard one to handle."

"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."

"It was a monstrously hard thing to do, but I was at it two hours, and I come out with the right stuff at last."

"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before."

"You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter."

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth."

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

"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."

"You see, I am a very conscientious person. I really am. I don't know how to explain it. I'm a monster, but I'm a conscientious monster."

"We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking that our long journey had for its object not the geographical route we followed, but the pursuit of the impossible shadow of a child."

"I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth."