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Quotes About Confusion

I will never understand these bethroted teenagers nowadays.
~ Rick Riordan
My dear children! Nellie whopped him upside the head with her backpack. Ow! Uncle Alistair curled over, cupping his hand over his good eye. Nellie! Amy said. Sorry, Nellie muttered. I thought he was one of the bad guys.
~ Rick Riordan
I tried to look confused, which is one of my most convincing expressions.
~ Rick Riordan
Whasthat! Um ... those are the toilets.
~ Rick Riordan
Enchiladas! Grover said. I wasn't sure where that came from, but it didn't seem to help much.
~ Rick Riordan
I often got sword fighting and tennis confused.
~ Rick Riordan
If You Understand What Happens in This Chapter, Please Tell Me, Because I Have No Clue
~ Rick Riordan
You got a stubborn streak. When it comes to girl problems you're clueless.
~ Rick Riordan
Look." The others seemed confused. Then the glow became brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey. A boy in the crowd gasped. "She's a communist!" A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. "No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol." Her face went slack as the truth sank in. "Uh, which means…it's her mom's symbol.
~ Rick Riordan
Exquisitely painful, isn't it? Not being sure who you love and loves you? -Aphrodite
~ Rick Riordan
I need to find Meg. I wiped my mouth with a shaky hand. What would the myrmekes do with her? I don't know! Tell me or I will not complete your customer service survey.
~ Rick Riordan
So, Frank said. Your name isn't Sammy? Leo scowled. What kind of question is that? Nothing, Frank said quickly. I just— Nothing.
~ Rick Riordan
The sign read MOUSE PASS GAS Frank: That's wrong
~ Rick Riordan
He's a little grumpy," Asclepius said. "People are always confusing my staff with the staff of Hermes, which has two snakes, obviously. Over the centuries, people have called Hermes's staff the symbol of medicine, when of course it should be my staff. Spike feels slighted. George and Martha get all the attention. Anyway...
~ Rick Riordan
Without a clear purpose, you will keep changing directions, jobs, relationships, churches, or other externals — hoping each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart. You think, Maybe this time it will be different, but it doesn't solve your real problem — a lack of focus and purpose.
~ Rick Warren
There are three barriers that block our total surrender to God: fear, pride, and confusion. We don't realize how much God loves us, we want to control our own lives, and we misunderstand the meaning of surrender.
~ Rick Warren
She no longer recognized herself, she thought. She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back.
~ Kate Atkinson
A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury," she
~ Kate Atkinson
I don't understand." "Well, when you arrived at St. George's you wouldn't stop screaming. They thought something terrible must have happened to you." "This isn't St. George's, is it?" "No," he said kindly. "This is a private clinic. Rest, good food and so on. They have lovely gardens. I always think a lovely garden helps, don't you?
~ Kate Atkinson
She had taken the wrong path, opened the wrong door, and was unable to find her way back. Suddenly
~ Kate Atkinson
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.
~ Kate Chopin
I lay there and thought how life was like a Littmus Lozenge, how the sweet and the sad were all mixed up together and how hard it was to separate them out. It was confusing.
~ Kate DiCamillo
He was agitated for some reason that he could not name. (page 35)
~ Kate DiCamillo
It is very dangerous for you to be who you are, said Brother Edik. and so you must pretend to be someone you are not. But how can I pretend to be someone I am not when I don't know who I am?
~ Kate DiCamillo