“That anyone could think us a romance nauseated me, while crime and drama seemed overblown.”— Bindu Bansinath, nytimes.com
“Lolita represents a different cultural type than her ancestors. She is not just an adolescent girl on her way to womanhood but a new specimen of humanity whose progeny will embody a historically unparalleled strain of youthfulness, even in their old age. In that sense we all share Lolita’s age.”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.com