Цитаты из книги «Lolita / Лолита. Книга для чтения на английском языке»

‘Do you mean sex play?’ I asked jauntily, in despair, a cornered old rat.

Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth.

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. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line[1]. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

please! I’ll do anything you want, oh, please…

You are not nine but almost thirteen, and I would not advise you to consider yourself my cross-country slave

Among Sicilians sexual relations between a father and his daughter are accepted as a matter of course, and the girl who participates in such relationship is not looked upon with disapproval by the society of which she is part.

took me out boating and biking

I your father, and I am speaking English, and I love you.

I am not a criminal sexual psychopath taking indecent liberties with a child.

‘My , in the blueberry woods during the bluest of summers.