Quotes About Russian Dolls

#1. The easiest emotions for an author to evoke from readers are boredom and confusion.

Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

#2. I thought of how she'd been at three, at six, at nine. No one warns you about the losses. No one tells you you'll miss them, those earlier children. They disappear, but are they still there, sealed one inside the next like those little wooden Russian dolls?

Ann Harleman

#3. I'm just looking to get through the day.

Peter Falk

#4. It occurs to him that there are different versions of himself to farewell - the abandoned eight-year-old; the delusional soldier who hovered somewhere in hell; the lightkeeper who dared to leave his heart undefended. Like Russian dolls, these lives sit within him.

M.L. Stedman

#5. Just now they kissed, with India coming up close on her toes to see if she could tell yet what there was about a kiss.

Eudora Welty

#6. At the end of the whole day of working with people you want some privacy.

Bill Bruford

#7. Russian dolls, or Matryoshka dolls, are wooden figurine dolls of decreasing size where each doll fits inside the doll next in size

Anonymous

#8. I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

Emma Watson

#9. The past five years had informed me about human sorrow. While no two griefs are the same, nobody understands suffering like those who've been there.

Helen Brown

#10. As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#11. People were like Russian nesting dolls - versions stacked inside the latest edition. But they all still lived inside, unchanged, just out of sight.

Megan Miranda

#12. The Russian Dolls would sue a snowman for sexual harassment if they thought the sun would stay away.

Jonathan Dunne

#13. All of it was hers, hers and Nat's, and all those years were nestled inside them like one of those Russian dolls, holding dozens of tiny selves inside it.

Lauren Oliver

#14. I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

John Paul Jones

#15. I don't see the kids and the car seats and all the ways we've changed. What I see is a girl who was wild about a boy, and a bot who loved that girl right back. And it makes me happy to know they're still in there, still inside us, like Russian dolls.

Shauna Niequist

#16. But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this world - ain't it, though!

Sarah Waters

#17. Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.

M T Anderson

#18. How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.

Susan Hill

#19. Love is more important than material possessions.

Thomas F. Wilson

#20. We often say things like, "Jesus died so I didn't have to, " but it's actually much worse. The truth is, Jesus died and so did I. But the worse morphs into better when we remember that Jesus didn't stay dead. And neither do we. Let the dying moments remind us where to find the living.

Emily P. Freeman

#21. There are no winners today, but I feel justice for my family, i have to watch my two sons put a leg on every day ... but I can tell you it feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev