4 Quotes by Nadja Spiegelman

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.

The past shaped the present, but the present also reshaped the past.

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.

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