Mar > Mar's Quotes

“Is it better to speak or die?”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“La debilidad del destino son las decisiones humanas.”
― Leandro Calderone, Resiste claves para encontrar tu llave

“I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.”
― Ai Yazawa

“Call me by your name and I'll call you by mine.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything – what a waste!”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I looked and looked at her, and I knew, as clearly as I know that I will die, that I loved her more than anything I had ever seen or imagined on earth. She was only the dead-leaf echo of the nymphet from long ago - but I loved her, this Lolita, pale and polluted and big with another man's child. She could fade and wither - I didn't care. I would still go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of her face.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ...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, Lolita