How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Section.Paragraph)
Quote #10
Across the dark sky of exile, Sirin passed, [...] like a meteor, and disappeared, leaving nothing much else behind him than a vague sense of uneasiness. (14.2.10)
Sirin is one of the writers Vladimir meets when he is an émigré in Berlin and Paris. Using the meteor simile, Nabokov gives the sense that an émigré can be under the radar, without a country or audience, unless one is very lucky.