Quotes About Russian Dolls

Life is a hierarchy of nested levels, like Russian dolls: genes within chromosomes within cells within individual organisms within hives, societies, and other groups.

He followed the sound of her worried voice into the living room. She sat on the couch in the living room with Abby and Wiener in descending order of size. The image reminded him of Russian dolls. Like those dolls, the three of them wore blank looks. The policemen from the hospital, Officers Brady and Williams, stood a few feet from the couch, in front of the fireplace. "Oh, hi," Josh said.

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.