Things People Said: My sin, my soul

Things People Said

A collection of quotes I've kept for a while now. I add new ones fairly regularly, generally once or twice every week. Topics will be anything I find interesting that day, from famous writers, online forums, and everyone in between. Mail me quotes you find interesting, or leave them in comments.

Before this post:
• There had better
• So Happy Together
• Love, life, and what's in between
• The touch of the Silmaril
• An die Freude!
• Check with your doctor?
• Please like me too
• From the old to the new
• Hallelujah?
• From congratulations to jealousy

A tremendous debt is owed to the following:

My sin, my soul

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

-- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

[ 12 June 2006 1:38 pm submitted by Unknown ]

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