Home » Quote » Vladimir Nabokov » „But in my arms she was always Lolita.“ „But in my arms she was always Lolita.“ — Vladimir Nabokov Related quotes „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 „I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.“ — Vladimir Nabokov „My arm was not what she needed, but the arm of someone else. My warmth was not what she needed, but the warmth of someone else.“ — Haruki Murakami „Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!“ — Vladimir Nabokov „Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.“ — Vladimir Nabokov „I once held her in my arms,She said she would always stay,But I was cruel, I treated her like a fool,I threw it all away.“ — Bob Dylan „Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws. She keeps her laws, and seems to transcend them. She arms and equips an animal to find its place and living in the earth, and at the same time she arms and equips another animal to destroy it.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson „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.“ — Vladimir Nabokov „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.“ — Vladimir Nabokov „She would always be my biggest what if.“ — Rick Riordan