Nadja Quotes

Oh Nadja!" my mother said. 'You're still stuck in your black-and-white phase of good and evil. The world is more complicated than that. ~ Nadja Spiegelman

When it comes to human suffering, appearance is everything. ~ Nadja Sam

There was something about Mikie that made me want to trust him. It might have been the Centanario Anejo. ~ Nadja Baer

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life's meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work. ~ Andre Breton

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. ~ Andre Breton

I am the soul in limbo. ~ Andre Breton

I saw a pattern forming, like a series of skipping stones that sent ripples through the generations: all the granddaughters and grandmothers who loved each other, all the mothers left stranded in between. ~ Nadja Spiegelman

The things my mother did not see about herself, I did not see, either. ~ Nadja Spiegelman