Frank Lasalle và Sally Horner

Thế tôi có làm với Dolly, tỷ như, cái việc mà Frank Lasalle, một gã thợ máy năm-mươi-tuổi, đã làm với bé Sally Horner mười-một-tuổi vào năm 1948 hay không?

Trích chương 33, phần II, Lolita.

"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov (story reading)

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. 

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.

Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

Bobby Pin

Gently I rolled back to town, in that old faithful car of mine which was serenely, almost cheerfully working for me. My Lolita! There was still a three-year-old bobby pin of hers in the depths of the glove compartment.

Trích chương 34, phần II, Lolita.

Humbert, Lolita và bà Haze. (Phim Lolita 1997)

Humbert, Lolita và bà Haze

Thứ Năm. Đêm qua chúng tôi ngồi ngoài hiên, cô Haze, Lolita và tôi. Chiều tàn ấm áp chậm chậm chìm vào bóng tối đắm say. Gái già vừa kể lại cực kỳ tỉ mỉ những tình tiết của cuốn phim mà thị và L. đã xem hồi mùa đông trước.

Trích chương 11, phần I, Lolita.

Warm and Fuzzy

warm-and-fuzzy: any person or thing that gives others comfort, reassurance, or a friendly feeling; also called warm fuzzy, warm fuzzies

Example: We love staying at that inn; it gives us the warm-and-fuzzies.