Lolita Movie Quotes

If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces gently melt into my own, while I look.

There, in jail, we dreamed of just being outside, free, but when I came out, I discovered that I missed the solidarity we had in jail, the sense of purpose, the way we tried to share memories and food. She said, More than anything else, I miss the hope. In jail, we had the hope that we might get out, go to college, have fun, go to the movies.

Sweet hot jazz, square dancing, gooey fudge sundaes, musicals, movie magazines and so forth - these were the obvious items on her list of beloved things.

Mentally, I found her to be a disgustingly conventional little girl. Sweet hot jazz, square dancing, gooey fudge sundaes, musicals, movie magazines and so forth - these were the obvious items on her list of beloved things. The Lord knows how many nickels I fed to the gorgeous music boxes that came with every meal we had! I still hear the nasal voices of those invisibles serenading her, people with names like Sammy and Jo and Eddy and Tony and Peggy and Guy and Patty and Rex, and sentimental song hits, all of them as similar to my ear as her various candies were to my palate.

Lolita credeva, con una sorta di celestiale fiducia, in tutte le réclame e i consigli che apparivano su “Movie Love” o “Screen Land” – lo Sterasil stermina i foruncoli, o “Niente camicia fuori dai jeans, ragazze: Jill dice che proprio non si deve!”. Se un cartello stradale diceva “VISITATE IL NOSTRO NEGOZIO DI REGALI” dovevamo visitarlo, dovevamo comprare le curiosità indiane, le bambole, la bigotteria di rame, le caramelle a forma di cactus. Le parole “novità e souvenir” l’ipnotizzavano con la loro cadenza anapestica. Se l’insegna di un caffè proclamava Bibite Ghiacciate, automaticamente Lo si eccitava, anche se le bibite erano ghiacciate dappertutto. Erano dedicate a lei, tutte quelle reclamé: la consumatrice ideale, soggetto e oggetto di ogni odioso manifesto.

(“We are not against cinema,” Ayatollah Khomeini had declared as his henchmen set fire to the movie houses, “we are against prostitution!”)

Razieh had an amazing capacity for beauty. She said, You know, all my life I have lived in poverty. I had to steal books and sneak into movie houses-but, God, I loved those books! I don't think any rich kid has ever cherished Rebecca or Gone with the Wind the way I did when I borrowed the translations from houses where my mother worked.

After the revolution, almost all the activities one associated with being out in public—seeing movies, listening to music, sharing drinks or a meal with friends—shifted to private homes. It was refreshing to go out once in a while, even to such a desultory event.