Quotes About Perplexity

In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation marks, it seems that the only object that can claim total honesty is fiction itself.

She could crowd a thousand thoughts into her head, but it was, at that moment like a strainer -- the more she tried to fill up every little corner, the more emptiness there was.

Women are terrifying. One second all is fine and well, and the next, everyone is left wondering if they are the ones with the demon in them.

It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know.

You don't understand much, he says. Why do you think I was lost in the impenetrable forest in the first place?

But it's difficult to be grateful for the absence of an unknown quantity.

He can't shake the feeling that this place is some sort of pyramid scheme, and that those who fail to understand that will be left empty-handed. But there's no obvious reason for this feeling of his. Maybe he's ungrateful by nature.

Is it disapproval or extreme lust? Toby wonders. With some men it's hard to tell the difference.

Who is this Fuck?" says Abraham Lincoln. "Why is he talking to this Fuck? That is not the name of anyone here.

Having signed a few autographs in my time, I always wonder what the heck people do with them.

Thirty seconds is the exact amount of time Americans can tolerate something they don't understand.

She stared in shock. There was nobody there!

I've watched two-year-old humans with interest for centuries. They're miserable. They rush about, fall down, and scream almost constantly. They hate being human! They know already that it's some sort of dirty trick.

He sat relaxed, one knee up, arms folded, face clear one moment in a flash of flame and pale the next. He was soiled all over, and seemed rather limp and in a strange misery of ease. His expression was neither bitter nor sarcastic, only thoughtful-fixed with an enduring expression just as the faces on the mosaics were fixed as they bore lifeless witness to the same events.

He had no idea what Jilly Lovitz would appreciate or not. And why the hell did her name have so many fucking L's in it? She'd probably done it on purpose, just to annoy him.

Why! he always thought to himself. What was that little redhead doing by the side of

The more I heard, the less I knew.

complication …. In that particular foggy business, I couldn't at this moment make out the wood for the trees, but one thing seemed fairly certain: this was

You are out of your freaking skull! Maybe, but is that relevant?

I worry about the men of your time, Grace. They all seem to be great fools. (Julian)

But this…this kid wasn't dead yet. Makes no sense to me. (Bubba) Maybe someone spiked his Wheaties? (Nick)

Nick's eyes widened as a total state of befuddled huh possessed him. Was he in the Twilight Zone?

You know, I keep having this really weird feeling that you're going to take me someplace later and tie me up so that your friends can come laugh at me. (Channon) Does that happen to you often? (Sebastian) No, never, but this night has the makings for a Twilight Zone episode. (Channon)

What?" – Sundown "I have never in my extremely long life seen anyone take so long to answer a question. It's like you went into your mind and got lost. You need a bread crumb, buddy? Here, Lassie, here. Come back, girl." – Sasha