Quotes About Puzzling

I am an oxymoron, shy and confident at the same time.

Parables subvert this desire to make faith simple and understandable. They do not offer the reader clarity, for they refuse to be captured in the net of a single interpretation and instead demand our eternal return to their words, our wrestling with them, and our puzzling over them.

Fhat thouding do're.

Sometimes people's behavior is seemingly unexplainable.

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

The earth seemed unearthly.

My balls are gone!

Like a book completely intact but missing one word every dozen, making it a miserable and confusing read.

As you may well know by now, the Givers are mysterious, and love to speak in riddles. It's more annoying than having sand in your underpants...

The bodies were gone, with no sign that they'd ever been there in the first place.

How do you feel? he asked him. Like a military academy, said Arthur. Bits of me keep on passing out.

I'm afraid so," said Pendergast. "The body, it appears, has been buttered and sugared.

Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast.

white moustache trembling

She wasn't easy to read. She'd do a devilish thing one day, and a really fine one the next.

I can assure you, it is not so gay as it sounds.

I'm big in Russia, but no one's quite sure why.

He seemed full of some goodness she didn't understand

Chandler's first book is famously incoherent

This man was so complicated that he could make a labyrinth seem like a straight line.

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

He was officially a lunatic, she decided. Strangely, that didn't make him less attractive.

[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.