The Return of Chorb
The Return of Chorb
by Vladimir Nabokov

The Return of Chorb Quotes

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The Supernatural Quotes

…and something which one might be inclined to regard as a kind of fatidic prefiguration: the radial span of a spider’s web between two telegraph wires that were beaded with droplets of...

Mortality Quotes

How was he to explain that he wished to possess his grief all by himself, without tainting it by any foreign substance and without sharing it with any other soul? Her death appeared to him as a mos...

Versions of Reality Quotes

He passed in reverse through all the spots they had visited together during their honeymoon journey (9).

Suffering Quotes

How was he to explain that he wished to possess his grief all by himself, without tainting it by any foreign substance and without sharing it with any other soul? (6).

Love Quotes

She skipped, she laughed. Chorb, hunching his back a bit, walked behind her—and it seemed to him that happiness itself had that smell, the smell of dead leaves (15).