Lolita 1962 quotes, page 3

Lolita

...I-I learned some real good games in camp. One in particular-ly was fun.

Humbert

Well, why don't you describe this one in particular-ly - good game?

Lolita

Well, I played it with Charlie...Charlie? He's that guy that you met in the office.

Humbert

You mean that boy...?

Lolita

Mmm, hmm.

Humbert

You and he?

Lolita

Yeah. You sure you can't guess what game I'm talking about?

Humbert

No, I'm not a very good guesser. [She whispers in his ear and then giggles] I don't know what game you played. [She whispers a few more words]

Lolita

You mean you never played that game when you were a kid?

Humbert

Oh, no.

Lolita

All righty then...

Dolores 'Lolita' Haze

Let go of me! You're hurting my arm! You let me go, you jerk! Let go of me!...You've got a big fat nerve dragging me away like that!...Who the heck do you think you are - not letting me go to my cast party? I wish the police do come in here. You creep!

Charlotte Haze

Oh M'sieur, if what you're needing is peace and quiet, I can assure you you couldn't get more peace anywhere, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.

Charlotte Haze

Harold, look what happened! I was disloyal to you. I couldn't help it, though. Seven years is a very long time. Why did you go and die on me?! I didn't know anything about life. I was very young. If you hadn't died, all this wouldn't have happened. Oh, darling, forgive me. Forgive me. You were the soul of integrity. How did we produce such a little beast? I promise, I promise, I promise you that I'll know better next time. Next time, it's gonna be somebody you'll be very proud of.

Humbert

This may be neither here nor there, but I've got to say it. Life is very short. Between here and that old car outside is twenty-five paces. Make them now, right now...Come away with me now, just as you are.

Lolita

Oh, you mean you'll give us the money only if I go to a hotel with you.

Humbert

No, you've got it all wrong. I want you to leave your husband and this awful house. I want you to live with me and die with me, and EVERYTHING with me.

Lolita

You must be crazy!

Humbert

I'm perfectly serious, Lo. I've never been less crazy in all my life. We'll start a-fresh. We can forget everything that has happened.

Lolita

No, it's too late.

Humbert

No, it's not too late...don't tell me that it's too late because it's not too late. If you want time to think it over, that's perfectly all right with me, because I've waited already for three years and I think I could wait for the rest of my life if necessary. You're not giving anything up. There's nothing here to keep you...You're not bound to him in any way, as you are bound to me by everything that we have lived through together - you and I.

Lolita

I'm going to have his baby in three months...I've wrecked too many things in my life. I can't do that to him. He needs me. [Humbert begins crying] Oh, come on, now don't make a scene. Stop crying! He could walk in here at any minute. Will you please stop crying?

Humbert

Quilty, Quilty.

Quilty

Wha? Wha? What's that?

Humbert

Are you Quilty?

Quilty

No, I'm Spartacus. Have you come to free the slaves or somethin'?

Humbert

Are you Quilty?

Quilty

Yeah, I am Quilty. Yes, sure.

Humbert

Shall we have a little chat before we start?

John

Mind if I dance with your girl? We could, um, sort of swap partners. [they leave to dance]

Jean

Did you know that you've had the most remarkable effect on her. Did you know that?...she's begun to radiate a certain glow. When you get to know me better, you'll find I'm extremely broad-minded...In fact, John and I, we're both broad-minded.

Humbert

There are no strings attached. It's only money anyway. It comes from the rent of the house - that's four hundred dollars in cash...I made out a check here for two thousand, five hundred dollars. There's someone in Ramsdale who's prepared to take care of the mortgage of the house. There's the downpayment. That's the payment.

Lolita

You mean we're getting thirteen thousand dollars? Wonderful. Oh, come on now, don't cry. I'm sorry. Try to understand. I'm really sorry that I cheated so much, but I guess that's just the way things are.
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Lolita

Hey, well listen, let's keep in touch, huh? I'll write to you when we get to Alaska.

Humbert

You know, I've missed you terribly.

Lolita

I haven't missed you. In fact, I've been revoltingly unfaithful to you.

Humbert

Oh.

Lolita

But it doesn't matter a bit, because you've stopped caring anyway.

Humbert

What makes you say I've stopped caring for you?

Lolita

Well, you haven't even kissed me yet, have you?

Charlotte Haze

I forbid you to disturb Professor Humbert again. He is a writer and he is not to be disturbed!

Dr. Hombards, would you mind if I am putting to you a blunt qvestion?...We are vundering if anybody instructed Lolita in the vacts of life?...You zee, Lolita is a sweet little child, but the onset of maturity seems to be giving her a certain amount of trouble...Dr. Hombards, to you she's still za liddle girl what is cradled in zee arms. But to dose boys over dare at Beardsley High she is a lovely girl, you know, mit mit mit mit mit de sving, you know, und zat jazz. She has got a curvature zat zat they take a lot of notice of. You and I - vat are we? Vee are the symbols of power sitting in our offices there. We are making za signatures, writing za contracts, the decisions all za time. What if we cast our minds back? Just zink, what were we only yesterday?...I have some other details which I should like to put to you.

Professor Humbert

You must now forget Ramsdale and push our lot and poor Lolita and poor Humbert, and accompany us to Beardsley College where my lectureship in French poetry is in its second semester. Six months have passed and Lolita is attending an excellent school where it is my hope that she will be persuaded to read other things than comic books and movie romances.

Humbert

It's partly my fault, I realize that. It's something that's happened on account of this horrible place. All these people poking their nose into our business. And I never see you anymore what with your soda-fountains and your extra-c...[she pops her gum] STOP DOING THAT! If we could leave this place perhaps. Yes, there's there's nothing to keep us here. We haven't any obligations here...We could just pack up our bags - TONIGHT! We could go now. I could take you for a wonderful trip around the country!...Don't you want to get back to where we were before we came to this horrible place? Don't you want to come away with me?

Lolita

NO! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!...WHY DON'T YOU LEAVE ME ALONE?...DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! YOU'RE A NAUSEATING CREEP!

Humbert

You're not gonna see these filthy boys anymore, I can tell you that.

Lolita

I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU. I'M GONNA DO ANYTHING I WANT TO, ANYTIME I WANT TO, WITH ANYBODY I WANT TO - AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!

Charlotte Haze

We can go home now and have a cozy little dinner partout, huh?

Lolita

Hey, let's tell mother.

Humbert

Tell mother what?

Lolita

You know what.

Humbert

No, I don't think that would be very funny.

Lolita

I wonder what she'd do? Hmm?