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Quotes About Confusion

Their monstrous forms represent the perverse defiance of normal categories and the confusion of identity associated with social and cosmic disorder.
~ Karen Armstrong
There are different kinds of being lost, ranging from momentary disorientation to the complete, all-out, am-I-even-on-planet-Earth variety.
~ Karen Berger
Sunpraise. None of it made any sense. He thought again of Brother Rhiad raving last night in the coach about what a dangerous
~ Karen Hancock
I want this chimney to smoke worse than Lucifer's own fire. Let's add another brick to be certain. Dougal stiffened. He'd thought they were repairing the chimney, but they wanted it to smoke. What in the hell was going on?
~ Karen Hawkins
It is surprising how many times a good feeling can be confused with a bad one. Often one is unsure which feeling it really is until much later.
~ Karen Hawkins
Sophia stood staring blankly up the stairs for an entire minute before it dawned on her that he'd used the kiss to befuddle her. Blast it all! She fumed to herself as she walked to the front window and stationed herself there. Time went by. The clock ticked. A bee buzzed against the windowpane. Dust settled. After thirty minutes had passed, Sophia had had enough. She gave the empty lane one last glance, then went upstairs.
~ Karen Hawkins
Good God! What in the hell was that noise?" The man in front of them turned in his seat. "That's what I've been asking myself this half hour and then some
~ Karen Hawkins
An uncle?" Christian looked from his brother, to his sister-in-law. "But…how?" Prudence laughed, Beth chiming in. Tristan shook his head ruefully. "I will explain it to you later." "No, no! I didn't mean that! I just—when did this happen? How long have you known?
~ Karen Hawkins
You are an enigma wrapped in a sticky bun.
~ Karin Slaughter
Jeffrey felt too blindsided
~ Karin Slaughter
Her birthday was yesterday, August twentieth. Why had Laura said that she was born in January? 6 Andy drove up and down what seemed like the city of Carrollton's main drag.
~ Karin Slaughter
Gallimaufry: a hodgepodge; a confused jumble of various people or things; any absurd medley.
~ Karin Slaughter
looked like a deformed monkey holding either a baseball bat or an erect penis in his three-fingered hand. Lena sighed, wondering what the fuck she was doing here. Maybe she should just go to the station tomorrow and talk to Jeffrey. There had to be a way to convince him that she was not involved in this case. She should just go home right now, pour herself a drink, and try to get some sleep, so that when the
~ Karin Slaughter
Claire?" Claire blinked open her eyes. She looked up at her mother, wondering why their faces were so close. "You fainted." "I didn't," Claire argued, though evidence pointed to the contrary. She was lying on her back in her own driveway. The policewoman was standing over her. Claire tried in vain to think of an insect the woman resembled, but honestly, she just looked overworked and tired.
~ Karin Slaughter
Claire didn't understand the appeal of being drugged. She had thought the purpose was to make you numb, but if anything, she was feeling everything much too intensely. She couldn't shut down her brain. She felt shaky. Her tongue was too thick for her mouth. Maybe she was doing it wrong.
~ Karin Slaughter
She took a deep breath and asked, "I'm sorry, Captain. I'm feeling a bit discombobulated. Can you please start from the beginning and tell me what happened?
~ Karin Slaughter
He shrugged. "It's always the Sunday following the first full moon that occurs after the spring equinox." Will took a minute to realize he was speaking English.
~ Karin Slaughter
Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?
~ Karl Barth
going they hadn't heard of it either.
~ Karl Pilkington
So this is what it's like to be in love? he mused quietly. And then he frowned. Damn. Now what do I do?
~ Kasey Michaels
the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.
~ Kate Atkinson
I'm not myself, she said and then laughed maniacally, but God knows who I am.
~ Kate Atkinson
He caught the look on her face, a mixture of distaste and confusion which eventually resolved into something more cryptic. Women usually needed to be acquainted with him a little longer before he saw that expression on their faces.
~ Kate Atkinson
Sometimes," Sylvie said, "One can mistake gratitude for love.
~ Kate Atkinson