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Quotes About Confusion

I liked him first, but it doesn't matter. I still like him. That doesn't matter either. Or at least, it's not supposed to.
~ Elizabeth Scott
love is...you get confused and you do stuff you don't mean to do-and you just-you hate yourself and sometimes you don't even want to love the person you do because it would be so much easier if you didn't.But you just-you just do.
~ Elizabeth Scott
I know who I want to be with, and it isn't her. - Ryan
~ Elizabeth Scott
Sometimes being me is very confusing.
~ Elizabeth Scott
No, it can't," I say. "It's— it's the kind of thing you want to say, that you want to believe, but it isn't— I know isn't true. I thought my heart knew things, but what I thought was real turned out to be a lie, and now I don't—
~ Elizabeth Scott
I didn't understand most of what he was saying. I should have had to understand what he was saying. I was still so young. And I certainly should not have had to learn it this way!
~ Elizabeth Smart
I do not have a clue who I have been. Truthfully, I do not understand a thing.
~ Elizabeth Strout
he was an old man who was talking to himself on a wharf in Portland, Maine, and he could not—Jack Kennison, with his two PhDs—he could not figure out how this had happened.
~ Elizabeth Strout
But the mind, or the heart, she didn't know which one it was, but it was slower these days, not catching up, and she felt like a big, fat field mouse scrambling to get up on a ball that was right in front of her turning faster and faster, and she couldn't get her scratchy frantic limbs up onto it.
~ Elizabeth Strout
At night I started once again to wake while it was still dark, and I would lie there and think about my life, and I could make no sense of it. It seemed to come to me in fragments
~ Elizabeth Strout
It seemed the older he grew - and he had grown old - the more he understood that he could not understand this confusing contest between good and evil, and that maybe people were not meant to understand things here on earth.
~ Elizabeth Strout
there was nothing to explain what he felt was happening to him, that he'd been put into a transparent plastic capsule that rose off the ground and was tossed and blown and shaken so fiercely that he could not possibly find his way back to the quotidian pleasures of his past life. Desperately, he did not want this.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Anita's face got blank, like she couldn't find the expression to put on it.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Haweeya had never been able to figure out exactly what Americans wanted. (Everything, she sometimes thought. They wanted everything.)
~ Elizabeth Strout
Behind the bored eyes of the waitresses handing out sundaes there loomed, she knew, great earnestness, great desires, and great disappointments; such confusion lay ahead for them, and (more wearisome) anger; oh, before they were through, they would blame and blame and blame, and then get tired, too.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and, consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.
~ Arthur Machen
Je finis par trouver sacré le désordre de mon esprit.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Korporal Jääskeläinen ble enda mer perpleks da det ikke var søvnige rekrutter som kom krypende ut av teltet, men en illsint offiser i bakrus. Urho ble redd, det var faktisk en ekte oberst som fylte døråpningen, i full uniform med skulderklaffer og det hele, og med tre gylne roser på kragespeilet. Urho Jääskeläinen stilte seg instinktivt i stram givakt: – Oberst! Korporal Jääskeläinen, tolv kyr, tretten mann alle!
~ Arto Paasilinna
Alguien puede decirme qué diantre es eso? Y señaló hacia el valle con un dedo imperioso e imperial, el que había utilizado para señalar las Pirámides cuando aquello de los cuarenta siglos o -en otro orden de cosas- el catre a María Valewska.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
He shrugged. "I don't know either. I can't read Frog-speak.
~ Ashley Gardner
Why would you need a DNA test? I already know you're a fucking space cadet.
~ Ashley Shepherd