• "All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh." -- Part One, Chapter 4
  • "It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight." --Part Two, Ch. 29
  • "I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita." -- Part Two, Ch. 36
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