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[darkyet]

You can never really know a person. If you think you can,
you’re living in a fucking dream world.

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"I’m sure that Egg is a very nice person, I just don’t want you spending all your money getting her all glittered up for Easter."

- Michael Bluth, Arrested Development.

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"I’m seventeen. Looking at linoleum makes me wanna have sex."

- Xander Harris, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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"A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction."

- Oscar Wilde.

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"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, an 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…"

- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita.

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"And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine."

- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita.