"Pale Fire" Quotes

Words, words, words – mere words, no matter from the heart.

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.

The snow is water, as life is water... I am water in another form.

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane.

To love reality is to love silence.

I exist because I think and I cannot stop thinking.

The secrets I have kept require such scrutiny to probe!

Well, I must put the mirror in its rack before the family awakes.

Real things are valuable only to the extent that they resemble and represent the secret immaterial world of their reality.

I will gladly seize any incident, event, or object, and will attempt to examine, evaluate, describe it in terms of my own experience.