“Whether or not the realization of a lifelong dream had surpassed all expectation, it had, in a sense, overshot its mark - and plunged into a nightmare.” - “with a blue block of ice for heart, a pill on my tongue and solid death in my hip pocket” - “that at any moment some thin-lipped parchment face would peer through a carelessly unshaded window to obtain a free glimpse of things that the most jaded voyeur would have paid a small fortune to watch.” - “I have turned on the light to take down a dream.” - “and that he had lightheartedly taken advantage of it one rainy day and forgotten it by the time the weather cleared.” - #lolita #nabokov #bookreview