Lolita Love Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #1 All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because the frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh. (1.3.3) |
Humbert poetically describes his feelings for his first love, Annabel. His affection is almost like a desire to consume. This imagery will return with Lolita.
| Quote #2 I broke her spell by incarnating her in another. (1.3.4) |
Humbert often describes love in fairy tale terms. Lolita cures him of his thwarted love of his first nymphet.
| Quote #3 I knew that I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not forever be Lolita. (1.15.3) |
Humbert expresses genuine feelings of love toward Lolita, which are often difficult to process given his treatment of her. As suggested here, however, the love seems contingent on Lolita being a nymphet. Does this turn out to be true?
