Quotes About Confusion

It was the not knowing. The not fucking knowing.

John-Paul?" TWO If this is a joke," said Tess, "it's not funny.

I don't know why I stay. I don't know why I deserve this. I don't know why you do this, why we do this, why this keeps happening.

Even the specialists didn't seem to know much more, and they were even more expensive and patronizing. But why had Joy been

I don't know why I stay. I don't know why I deserve this. I don't know why you do this, why we do this, why this keeps happening. "Celeste,

It felt as if Gemma had moved up to a higher, more complex level of human emotions that Lyn couldn't even hope to understand. She didn't know the rules. She didn't know the right thing to say to make it better. It was like Gemma possessed a secret, terrible knowledge that Lyn could only clumsily guess at.

Connie could make her feel slow and bovine; the way she'd suddenly snap her head around and bark a question that would leave Margie fumbling for an answer.

John-Paul did not have the requisite organizational abilities to handle bigamy. He would have slipped up long ago. Turned up at the wrong house. Called one of his wives by the wrong name. He'd be constantly leaving his possessions at the other place.

Her brain couldn't seem to catch up with the news. It was like the way she'd kept rolling toward Will last night in her sleep, only to find empty space where he should have been, and then waking up with a jolt.

She wondered if she was going mad. It felt like a decision she could make. One small step over an invisible line and she could choose lunacy.

She looked straight ahead at the briskly working windshield wipers. The windshield was just like the never-ending cycles of her mind. Confusion. Clear. Confusion. Clear. Confusion. Clear.

I knew, even at eight, that the confusion of values thrust upon me by parents, teachers, other children, nannies, camp counselors, and others would only worsen as I grew up. The years would add complications and steer me into more and more impenetrable tangles of rights and wrongs, desirables and undesirables. I had already seen enough to know that.

How had I managed to tie my boots? I didn't even remember getting dressed. I was out here in public at the mall. What was I wearing? Jeans. I could feel socks. I had my boots on. I plucked at the edge of my t-shirt and saw it was red. I was wearing Dad's spare Army jacket, and there was a heavy weight in the right pocket that had to be something deadly.

I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned.

A hand closed around her arm, warm and hard, and it could possibly have been comforting if she had possessed the faintest idea whose appendage it was.

I'm done with the seesaw, the hot and cold, the guys who don't know or can't tell you what they want. I'm done with kissing that melts your bones followed by ten days of silence followed by a fucking pat on the arm at the T stop.

Totisesti on olemassa hetkiä, jolloin elämä on meille liian suurta, jolloin kaikki tyynni on liitossa meitä vastaan pettääkseen ja tuhotakseen toiveemme; silloin ihminen on kuin kulkija, joka on metsässä kadottanut suuntamerkit tai joutunut maanalaiseen luolaan, missä törmää kivimuuriin, kääntyipä minne hyvänsä.

I don't know if I love him. I'm not sure what love is, or if I'm qualified to make that proclamation.

Whoa! What the hell is that?" "It's a fuckin' head!" Josh swallowed a big wad of something gross at the back of his throat. The two boys exchanged looks. Scott's mouth was open so wide Josh could see the cavities in his back molars. "You mean like a human?" "Well, duh. You ever seen a cow with teeth like that?

Crimes like this baffle the mind. They break your heart. They'll tear you up inside if you let them.

Dear Lord, In times of loss and confusion, it's hard to understand why you don't just change my circumstances. In fact, Lord, sometimes I feel like I'm lost in an endless maze. But yet I know you are bigger than my problems, and despite my confusion about what to do next, I know you are not lost—you will guide me to where I need to be. That's why I choose to stick with you. Give me strength, Lord, your strength. In Jesus's name, amen.

She shines and nobody knows what to do with her.

Let me get this straight," Eli said, as if trying to be calm even though I could tell he was upset. "Instead of returning to your own body, you swapped with my sister?" "Yes." "So while I was waiting for you to wake up, holding your hand and saying...well, things I would never say to my sister...it was her and not you?" "Um...yeah.

Helplessness, guilt, anger, misplaced pity, and couldn't-there-be-some-other-way emotions can detour and distract our hearts. They can keep us from remembering that God will bring us through to a fresh, new, awe-inspiring understanding of his great love. So, stand as the women at the cross did among the pain and confusion. Remain faithful and steadfast.