lolita quote

[Burns, Erik]

betsy yoon wrote:

>Does anyone have (or know where I can find) that quote from Lolita that
>occurrs after he sees her while pregnant, and he's driving off to quilty's
>house, and he's like 'oh lolita, even if your eyes were to fade to myopic
>fish and your breasts were to sag and your delta torn and etc. I would
still
>love you my lolita."?   I am in a foreign country without access to this
>crap and I'm trying to prove a point to some reslient people.

you're pretty close!

[..]even if those eyes of hers would fade to myopic fish, and her nipples
swell and crack, and her lovely young velvety delicate delta be tainted and
torn—even when I would go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of your dear
wan face, at the mere sound of your young raucous young voice, my Lolita.
(Nabokov, 278)

(dunno the edition here, i found the cite here:
http://www.vestige.org/nabokov/lolita/personal.html)

a bit more: (from here: http://www.captiondm.net/e-resumes/nabokov.html)

"I insist the world know how much I loved my Lolita, this Lolita, pale and
polluted, and bug with another’s child, but still Carmencita, still mine
No
matter if those eyes of hers would fade to myopic fish, and her nipples
swell and crack, and her lovely young velvety delicate bra be tainted and
torn
, my Lolita."

and even more: (from here: http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~tanguay/book76.htm)

"I insist the world know how much I loved my Lolita, this Lolita, pale and
polluted, and big with another's child, but still gray-eyed, still
sooty-lashed, still auburn and almond, still Carmencita, still mine;
Changeons de vie, ma Carmen, allons vivre quelque part ou nous ne serons
jamais separes; Ohio? The wilds of Massachusetts? No matter, even if those
eyes of hers would fade to myopic fish, and her nipples swell and crack, and
her lovely young velvety delicate delta be tainted and torn--even then I
would go mad with tenderness at the mere sight of your dear wan face, at the
ere sound of your raucous young voice, my Lolita."

etb (who disnae have the boo' at hand)