The Real Lolita Quotes

“The appreciation of art can make a sucker out of those who forget the darkness of real life.”
― Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

“He had spent the previous year sharpening his observations of quotidian matters. He noted down all sorts of minutiae, the better to portray the American prepubescent girl at the heart of his novel with greater accuracy. Nabokov recorded heights and weights, average age of first menstruation, attitude changes, even the “proper method of inserting an enema tip into a rectum.”
― Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World

“He meant to stay nearby with the McCoos, parents to “two little daughters, one a baby the other a girl of twelve.” Lodging there, he assumed, would allow him to “coach in French and fondle in Humbertish.”
― Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World

“intercostal”
― Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World

“bespoke”
― Sarah Weinman, The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World