Quotes About Puzzling

All men are. I declare, I think you to be the most incomprehensible creatures.

We live in bewildering world

Life is mysterious as well as vulgar.

And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.

Why do Twolegs do anything? If we knew that, our lives would be a lot easier.

On the other hand, his interest in table tennis was neither puzzling nor malign. He just liked table tennis. The hunt for the Table Tennis Ring was a vivid red herring.

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.

His writings were often obscure,

I found the decision hard to understand,

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

the far side of the room, the anagram

You can't conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the … appalling … strangeness

lot. She saw a guy carrying a small suitcase out

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

I must admit there are 'memories' in my head that are curious even to me.

uninviting, inscrutable,

and curiouser. Maddie supposed she would never totally understand this nonsensical world

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

Since when had shabby men started to look impossibly attractive when immaculately tailored ones merely looked ... well, immaculately tailored? Though it was not shabby men exactly, was it, but a certain shabby man . It was really very puzzling.

It sometimes seems to me like we're not supposed to notice that Shug's colored, or that saying anything about it would be bad manners. That puzzles me because Shug's being colored strikes me as real obvious. And usually anybody's difference gets pounced on and picked at. This silence is a lie peculiar to a man's skin color, which makes it extra serious and extra puzzling. Daddy

There is one thing dead people excel at. They're

Yeah. She said that there was weird shit in the walls at Ellingham. Things and hollow spaces. Stuff. She'd found things. Shit in the walls.

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate; Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

The world is so strange that maybe it's perfectly logical.