june 23rd, 2009, 5:04 pm

i have a few more quotes from lolita before i move on to quoting anna karenina.

[S]he stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.
nabokov, lolita, 17

I knew she would [...] even close her eyes as Hollywood teaches.
ibid., 48

Distant mountains. Near mountains. More mountains; bluish beauties never attainable, or ever turning into inhabited hill after hill [...]
ibid., 156

[...] how much she looked—had always looked—like Botticelli’s russet Venus—
ibid., 270

lolita‘s romanticism is amazing.