All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love …

Vladimir Nabokov
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All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so. ✨ Vladimir Nabokov (2010). Lolita, p.12, Vintage
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