100 Best Quotes from Russian Doll Season 2

Russian Doll is an American Comedy-Drama series that dives into the human condition. Notably, it’s a series known for the comedic quotes from its characters, but it has its emotional and heartwarming moments.

While Season 1 was wrapped up in time loops, Season 2 follows the titular characters as they navigate their way in traveling through time. Season 2 starts with Nadia visiting Ruth at the hospital not long before her 40th birthday and being sent through time.

Here’s the scoop on quotes from Russian Doll Season 2!

1.”Easy on the Oedipus. I just woke up.” – Nadia

2. “There’s nothing as invigorating as that spilt second of terror that it’s really all over.” – Ruth

3. “Yeah. Well, you don’t get to choose your genetics.”- Nadia

4. “I mean, is Lenox Hill actually treating patients today, or are we just putting on a Beckett play?” – Nadia

5. “Good things come to those who can’t wait.” – Nadia

6. “Do you know that human embryos go through a stage where they have slits in their necks like fish? Isn’t that adorbs?” – Maxine

7. “Every time you compliment me, a cockroach gets its wings.” – Nadia

8. “Define future.” – Nadia

9.”Yeah, hon. It’s arguably the only thing I’m sure of. Basic concepts like time and space are suddenly eluding me.” – Nadia

10. “Well, my past, your future. Begs the question, am I haunting you, are you haunting me?” – Nadia

11. “I prefer the term ‘time prisoner.’ “- Nadia

12. “Uh, here’s my rule on strangers. They, uh, they stand at a distance, 500 feet away from me, and then, you know, I just never see ‘em again.” – Nadia

13. “Yeah, I’ll find it. I’m a compass.” – Nadia

14. “Oh, hey, that’s what you get for going to Jersey. I mean, it’s free to get in, but you gotta pay to get out.” – Nadia

15. “For the last time, that key is for emergencies. You cannot just come by when you’re in the neighborhood and need to use the bathroom.” – Alan

16. “The universe finally found something worse than death.” – Nadia

17. “I wish I knew what to say, but I’m just taking the 6 train into my mom.” – Alan

18. “Look, all I’m saying is, maybe we have unfinished business.” – Nadia

19. “We have spent your past three birthdays on DEFCON 1 just in case we start dying.” –  Alan

20. “Ask yourself this, are you happy?” – Nadia

21. “I think this is what life feels like.” – Alan

22. “Anyway, people don’t like it when you are not punctual.” – Alan

23. “Some type of Paul Snider character. Now I don’t expect you to get that. It’s a Star 80 reference. Very deep cut.” – Nadia

24. “Hey, you’re loving and you deserve love.” – Nadia

25. “I’m all the way in.” – Nadia

26. “There’s two of you now.” – Chez

27. “Look at that. Tony the tiger.” – Nadia

28. “Let me just start by saying I am as mad about this as you are.” – Nadia

29. “Hey, I guess, we’re just cutting out the middle mom now, right?” – Nadia

30. “Regimes change, currencies become obsolete, only gold remains.” – Nadia

31. Meantime, she cast you as the evil puppet-master with herself as the victim head case. Cut to the end of the story, it was meant to be my inheritance anyway.” – Nadia

32. “Not yours, not Mom’s, mines.” – Nadia

33. “Touché, paper.” – Nadia

34. “Uh, I think he works robbing me.” – Nadia

35. “It would’ve been my college tuition and probably a racehorse.” – Nadia

36. “Oh, well, not someone, somewhere. Uh, I got a little tool called the World Wide Web.” – Nadia

37. “I’m working on a new piece in which I give my audience a knife and I dare them to divide my body into zones. It’s called The 38th Parallel.”  – Maxine

38. “Max thinks borders are an oppressive delusion, like the stock market.” – Lizzy

39. “No, we’ve always needed boundaries to understand where we end and others begin.” – Ruth

40. “Fetishizing death is not incompatible with genuinely caring.” – Maxine

41. “I did six months as a puppeteer in hospice.” – Maxine

42. “Ring-a-ding-a-ling-a-bell? Yeah. Google and I did a deep dive on you.” – Nadia

43. “Besides screwing me and my dead mother, both of which you’ve already done?” – Nadia

44. “I’m not exactly, uh, King Midas.” – Chez

45. “Uh, look, man, I didn’t really come here to have the thief give me advice on getting back my family inheritance.” – Nadia

46. “In our house, a Coney Island, is the thing that would’ve made everything better, if only it had happened, or didn’t happen.” – Chez

47. “It’s an ‘if only.’ ” – Chez

48. “That’s a lovely story, and I’m sorry to hear about all that polio.” – Nadia

49. “Legs are the bicycles on the ride of life.” – Nadia 

50. “Oh, would you let, uh, Mr. Lincoln exercise here?” – Nadia

51. “What would you guys know with your tight little 1982 gym shorts?” – Nadia

52. “Don’t sell my autograph.” – Chez

53. “I may look like Nora, but I don’t play games.” – Nadia

54. “Just last night, I murdered a rock, I injured a stone, I hospitalized a brick.” – Nadia

55. “Uh, you’re Muhammad Ali now?” – Chez

56. “And I fight Mr. Tooth Decay.” – Nadia

57. “It looks like Santa’s gotta take your little Spider back to the North Pole.” – Nadia

58. “I don’t love yelling “Auschwitz” in a car dealership.”- Ruth

59. “Well, all you really need to know is he’s a cutie-pie alcohol abuser in a loveless marriage, eh.” – Nadia

60. “Well, even Imelda Marcos can’t keep all the shoes.” – Ruth

61. “Oh, no one deserves what they get in life. That’s not how it works.” – Ruth

62. “Uh, case in point, I used to hate menthols, and now, uh, hooked on cyan just like my schizo mom, huh?” – Nadia

63. “You only break things, Lenora. – Vera

64. “She who has a head of wax cannot walk in the sun.” – Nadia

65. “You are all you can depend on in this world.” – Vera

66. “Just so you know, uh, I’m not entirely sure exactly whose urine this is.” – Nadia

67. “Nora, being born doesn’t make you a victim.” – Ruth

68. “Hello, Grandpa. Uh, got any secrets for me?” – Nadia

69. “Maybe it’s been too much Mommy-in-me time. – Nadia

70. “I see. You’re immune to paradox.” – Nadia

71. “Ah, duck, duck, goose step, my turn.” – Nadia

72. “All the world was made for you. Everything is dust and ashes.” – Nadia

73. “She’s trying to control us, but it’s not gonna work.” – Lenora

74. “I think God is a tree or a wheel.” – Lenora

75. “Find the train, mitigate the epigenetic k-hole before it begins.” – Nadia

76. “I think, therefore I am seeing my mother.” – Nadia

77. “Of course, American religion at its core has always been consumerism, but now the illusion’s fading away but now the illusion’s fading away and we’re left worshipping the thing itself. The pursuit of money for money’s sake.” – Danny

78. “You know, I previously thought that I was just inhabiting her body, but uh, I now realize that I’m inside of her mind too, okay?” – Nadia

79. “Why is it so bad to be paranoid schizophrenic and have this baby?” – Lenora

80. “Nobody understood me until I had you.” – Lenora

81. “You know, I think if we can just get back far enough, we can circumnavigate this whole future hellscape…and then you’ll never have to go through any of this.” – Nadia

82. “You’re gonna do great things, I know it. Anything you set your mind to, you can do.” – Lenora

83. “So you’re the one who kills baby Hitler. Impressive. You know, I never took you for a murderer, Alan.” – Nadia

84. “Maybe it’s not about fixing anything. You know, like you said, we leveled up. Maybe we’re just supposed to, like, I don’t know, you know, enjoy the ride.” – Alan

85. “It’s nice not to have to worry what people think when they see me.” – Alan

86. “I guess I wanna go, I don’t know, celebrate my birth by going back to where all my people died.” – Nadia

87. “I don’t make the rules. That’s history.” – Nadia

88. “Looks like candy to me.” – Nadia

89. “See, when you’re poking around in the past, it’s helpful to have a second pair of eyes.” – Ruth

90. “Ah, and a third leg.” – Nadia

91. “3:00 a.m. is always the point in the night where we get sad and try to figure out our families.” – Nadia

92. “Oh you’re ‘nuts’ nuts.” – Nadia

93. “Dead men get all the plaques.” – Maxine

94. “I don’t think that was an invitation to goulash.” – Nadia

95. “I wanna sleep. With a Hungarian, but first, with myself.” – Maxine

96. “The problem is we have different lives. Maybe we only intersect here.” – Lenny

97. “I mean, this is the fall of man we’re talking about.” – Nadia

98. “I don’t need it, but it’s good to have. Like driver’s license or a left hand.” – Maxine

99. “Well, at least you have a good taste in fashion. Black.” – Nadia

100. “Honey, we always think that closure is something we can find out there in the world as if we can find it in another person, or a confession, or an apology. See, in the end, nothing can absolve us but ourselves.” – Ruth

The second season explores the idea of grief. While it brings in the idea of generational trauma passed from mother to daughter, the main theme is how people figure out their grief. Furthermore, the show also is surreal in its nature and has many witty quotes from the characters.

Viewers of the show were excited for another season after three years of waiting when the first season ended. After all, the first season received four nominations for the Primetime Emmy.

I hope you enjoyed the quotes from the Russian Doll! Watch this quirky comedy-drama on Netflix.

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