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Quotes About Puzzlement

What are those?" he asked.
~ Christopher Paolini
We have the answers, all the answers; it's the question we do not know.
~ Verne Harnish
Wie? Was? Wie?
~ Kurt Tucholsky
Karou was plagued by the notion that she wasn't whole. She didn't know what this meant, but it was a lifelong feeling, a sensation akin to having forgotten something. She'd tried describing it to Issa once, when she was a girl. "It's like you're standing in the kitchen, and you know you went in there for a reason, but you can't think of what that reason is, no matter what.
~ Laini Taylor
So I ask you again, Lazlo Strange… who are you?
~ Laini Taylor
Puzzlement drew a crease in his brow, like he was divining a mystery. Like she was his mystery.
~ Laini Taylor
Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.
~ Cassandra Clare
The kitchen was just as empty, even the refrigerator gone, the chairs, the table--the kitchen cabinets stood open, their bare shelves reminder her of a nursery rhyme. She cleared her throat. "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?
~ Cassandra Clare
The missing stairs baffled Clary. What did vampires have against stairs? -Clary, pg.266-
~ Cassandra Clare
And of course Charlotte hasn't eaten a bit of dinner," Henry said, getting up. "I'll go see if Bridget can't make her up a plate of cold chicken. As for the rest of you-" He paused for a moment, as if he were about to give them an order-send them to bed, perhaps, or back to the library to do more research. The moment passed, and a look of puzzlement crossed his face. "Blast it, I can't remember what I was going to say," he announced, and vanished into the kitchen.
~ Cassandra Clare
Why this girl?" Hunter tossed a sliver of wood onto the flames. "Another will not do.
~ Catherine Anderson
looked up. Benny was not reading any more. He was looking straight ahead. But he was not looking at anything. "What's the matter, Ben?" asked Mr. Alden.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
~ Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
~ Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer.
~ Gertrude Stein
I have qualms and wonder what a qualm would look like if you painted it -- probably like a bowl of melting ice cream or a dish of Jell-o just before it sets.
~ Gloria Whelan
Îl z?p?cise pur ?i simplu mul?imea aceea nespus de pestri??, de parc? diavolul f?râmase lumea buc??i ?i le adunase apoi la loc, f?r? niciun sens, f?r? niciun rost.
~ Gogol Nikolai
Jahno asked with a stymied scholar's anguish.
~ Jacqueline Carey
When you told me about the different subjects--psychology, ethics, philosophy, logic--that's what I most wanted to study. . . It's not so--well--definite, is it? Sometimes it's like a maze, with no answers, only more questions.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
God curse me and my lack of wits! Why don't I know what to do easily?
~ James Clavell
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
~ Lenny Kravitz
My unconditional sure thing is that I don't have one.
~ Henry Rollins
My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.
~ Crystal Chappell
The average man is not hard to mystify.
~ Howard Thurston