Quotes About Perplexity

at him. 'What could be wrong?' Not knowing how to answer, she turned the question back to

David chopped and grimaced. "To be honest," he said, "I never understood anything with a dick in it.

Y parecía sincero el hijo de puta. Usaba el repertorio más convencional del asombro para salir del asunto, salvar la ropa, decir hasta ahí nomás.

He closes his eyes. A jungle in there, inside his head. He opens them quickly.

No. Haven't you been listening?" Marcus would always remember that moment. It was to be the first time he would ever be faced with that most vexing of female quirks: the question that had nothing but wrong answers.

Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go." "You're not?" Blake stared at her in irritated confusion. What was her game? "Do you think I'm an idiot?" he spat out. "No," she said. "I've just escaped from a den of idiots, so I'm well familiar with the breed, and you're something else entirely. I am, however, hoping you're not a terribly good shot.

she was looking at him as if he'd just dropped fully formed from the sky.

It was so strange how someone could love another person so much and so well but still not understand what made her happy.

He wasn't sure how he ought to feel about this. On the other hand . . . boiled meat!

You'll see me all right—but not very much of me," Liv muttered, watching him go. What was it about him that made her feel so strange? She ought to be outraged

Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarrassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom, till too late, discover how I ought to act.

Since love came over and knocked me down, Then kicked me in the side and fled, I have suffered from a prolonged perplexity. God is the object of my wonder and the closest to me. Especially near sleep. My sheets are like the wings of a guardian angel. There is no other fabric so near to my feelings.

Curran was beautiful but perhaps a little mad.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Dziwny pies ?a?cuchowy!"- pomy?la? Wokulski.

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

Uno de los dones más peculiares y originales de Kafka es que sus relatos parecen haber regresado de nuestro olvido, dejándonos siempre con la sensación de que perseveramos para olvidar lo que sentimos cuando experimentamos esas extrañezas.

Jehovah. She catches me when I'm nearly out of my mind and lays out the avenues of my life. How can she be his sister and not have the slightest idea what goes on in his head, my head, anybody's head? Oh Lord, why didn't you give us tongues to explain to Aunt Alexandra?

I will never understand men as long as I live, she said, no longer in love with Henry.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

Probably. Again with the probablys. A world full of probablys, she said.

I spend more time being confused than not," I answered.

Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it.