"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight."
- Vladimir Nabokov
"I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes "
"I recall certain moments, let us call them icebergs in paradise, when after having had my fill of her –after fabulous, insane exertions that left me limp and azure-barred–I would gather her in my arms..."
"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it."
"Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece"
"Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is."
"Let all of life be an unfettered howl."
"Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring."
"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."
"We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John ..."