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Quotes About Confusion

What the hell is wrong with you? he asked. It was a good question.
~ Maureen Johnson
It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.
~ Maureen Johnson
Listen, haircut...' Did you just call me haircut ?' he asked. Yes. You know there's no reason we can't go online. It's crazy.' Why'd you call me haircut?' he asked, touching his hair. 'Is it because I have a great haircut?' You figure it out,' she answered. -Clio and Aiden, Girl At Sea by Maureen Johnson
~ Maureen Johnson
He looked a bit more confused by Stevie and David, but nodded politely. "I'm a watch ad," David said. "She's a hipster grandpa. Together, we solve crime.
~ Maureen Johnson
Irony is the word I forget the meaning of immediately after I look it up, but I kind of feel like I live in a constant state of it.
~ Maureen Johnson
Did I just kill someone? You can't kill a dead person, Callum said. Makes no sense.
~ Maureen Johnson
What tinfoil? he asked.
~ Maureen Johnson
How did everyone else know how to do yoga? The one advantage to all of this was that it cleared Stevie's mind of everything. She heard exercise did that. Was this what they meant? You were so busy being confused and trying to stop your sweaty hands from slipping on a mat that you couldn't think anymore? Stevie did approve of the fact that yoga ended by lying on the floor in a corpse pose.
~ Maureen Johnson
It was a deathtrap, a meandering thread of madness. It suggested that there was something about English people that she may never understand.
~ Maureen Johnson
Office of Confusion and Panic
~ Maureen Johnson
It all feels so fake that it seems okay.
~ Maureen Johnson
But I was fuelled by the power of confusion and panic, which, like I said is always ready and waiting to get to work.
~ Maureen Johnson
Stevie had absolutely no idea what he meant by "have a butcher's" and was not going to ask.
~ Maureen Johnson
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh David said. It was as good a summary of the situation as any. oh, Stevie said. Again, this about summed it up.
~ Maureen Johnson
Jesus Christ," Nate said, banging his head delicately against the mirror wall. "Is this even a school, or are we in some kind of experiment?
~ Maureen Johnson
I keep thinking that insanity is a state where a person can't tell what's real. Well, what's real now is insane—and if I accepted it as real, I'd have to lose my mind, wouldn't
~ Ayn Rand
He looked at the paper before him. He wondered why ineptitude should exist and have its say.
~ Ayn Rand
They're not going anywhere, they're escaping. And I don't think they know what it is that they want to escape.
~ Ayn Rand
Those who seek some sort of a higher purpose or 'universal goal,' who don't know what to live for, who moan that they must 'find themselves.' You hear it all around us. That seems to be the official bromide of our century. Every book you open. Every drooling self-confession. It seems to be the noble thing to confess. I'd think it would be the most shameful one.
~ Ayn Rand
The fact is I don't know what I want, and I don't know if I am doing the right thing. I've always been told what is right—and suddenly I don't know anymore. I know what I don't want, but I don't know what I want,' she said, looking down at the ice cream she had hardly touched.
~ Azar Nafisi
Nema told us that the son of one of his friends, a 10-year-old, had a week and his parents in whore telling them he has been having an "illegal dream." He had been dreaming that he was at the seaside with some men and women who were kissing, and he did not know what to do. He kept repeating to his parents that he was having a legal dreams.
~ Azar Nafisi
My head was crammed with too many facts and too few answers.
~ Barack Obama
I dropped to the ground and swept my hand across the smooth yellow tile. Oh, Father, I cried. There was no shame in your confusion. Just as there had been no shame in your father's before you. No shame in the fear, or in the fear of his father before him. There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. It was the silence that betrayed us.
~ Barack Obama
There was no shame in your confusion. Just as there had been no shame in your father's before you. No shame in the fear, or in the fear of his father before him. There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. It was the silence that betrayed us.
~ Barack Obama