Lolita Youth Quotes Page 3
Citations follow this format: (Book.Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #7 The whole point is that the old link between the adult world and the child world has been completely severed nowadays by new customs and new laws […] After all, Lolita was only twelve, and no matter what concessions I made to time and place—even bearing in mind the crude behavior of American schoolchildren—I still was under the impression that whatever went on among those brash brats, went on at a later age, and in a different environment. (1.28.2) |
Humbert struggles with the obvious unattractive qualities in children. He often reluctantly confesses that Lolita is just as ordinary as the rest.
| Quote #8 And so we rolled East, I more devastated than braced with the satisfaction of my passion, and she glowing with health; her bi-iliac garland still as brief as a lad's, although she had added two inches to her stature and eight pounds to her weight. (2.3.19) |
OK, time to get out your dictionary. Humbert's obsession with certain parts of Lolita's young body is downright disturbing.
| Quote #9 She was only the faint violet whiff and dead leaf of the nymphet I had rolled myself upon with such cries in the past (2.29.67) |
At only seventeen, Lolita has lost the bloom of youth. Shades of the nymphet can barely be discerned when Humbert visits a pregnant and married Lolita. But he still loves her. What does that suggest?
