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

‘Why can’t I call my mother if I want to?’ ‘Because,’ I answered, ‘your mother is dead.’

I ought to call the police and tell them you raped me. Oh you, dirty, dirty old man.

I was not even her first lover.

frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other’s soul and flesh;

Ce qui me rend folle, c’est que je ne sais à quoi tu penses quand tu es comme ça [110]

Tu es bien gentil de dire ça ’

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

‘You chump,’ she said, sweetly smiling at me. ‘You revolting creature. I was a daisy-fresh girl, and look what you’ve done to me. I ought to call the police and tell them you raped me. Oh you, dirty, dirty old man.’

had he known that every nerve in me was still anointed and ringed with the feel of her body – the body of some immortal daemon disguised as a female child.

And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine