“ The softness and fragility of baby animals caused us the same intense pain. She wanted to be a nurse in some famished Asiatic country; I wanted to be a famous spy. Vladimir Nabokov
“ I have often noticed that we are inclined to endow our friends with the stability of type that literary characters acquire in the reader's mind. No matter how many times we reopen 'King Lear,' never s… Vladimir Nabokov
“ Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you are reading this. Vladimir Nabokov
“ I could not kill , of course, as some have thought. You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. Vladimir Nabokov
“ I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else. Vladimir Nabokov
“ One last word,' I said in my horrible careful English, 'are you quite, quite sure that—well, not tomorrow, of course, and not after tomorrow, but—well—some day, any day, you will not come to live with… Vladimir Nabokov
“ Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand), the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, features a video filmed by Titanic director James Cameron. In it, Manson croons to Wood, who – with bobbe… Antonella Gambotto-Burke