Quotes About Bewilderment

This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

All my signposts had gone up in one blinding, dizzying explosion [...] none of the scenery looked familiar anymore.

What are you on, Samuel?" This was easier, he glanced down. "Laminate.

he was like an illiterate savage staring at the first page of an illuminated Bible

What the hell was I going to do with a rabid animal welded to a tree stump?

valley of the clueless

It's a murky world out there, and it's hard to figure things out sometimes.

on the first night of the program. She waltzed around the set topless. She asked what asparagus was and said, "Rio de Janeiro, ain't that a person?" She referred to East Anglia as "East Angular," thought Portugal was in Spain, and complained that she was

What? He can't possibly mean to—

It is hardly a surprise if religions choose to address themselves first to the majority who are poor and bewildered and uneducated.

Meanwhile, Ruskin has completely lost his wig.

And there were hundreds of singular events experienced by individuals: creatures moving in the shadows, voices and screams from the sewer grates, milk souring, cats scratching owners, dogs howling, and a thousand people woke up to find that they no longer cared for the taste of chocolate. It was a fucked-up day.

Outside the bedroom Jane fumbled around and in her purse and produced a pack of cigarettes, but couldn't figure out whether to smoke one or not. "Holy Motown Jesus with Pips, what the fuck is going on in there?

Quoi?" she had said, in perfect fucking French.

Once Zoopy started woofing you never knew when he'd stop. Agent One screamed, "It's alive! I thought it was a car!

What? I ask. I don't get anything about this day. Everything is just off. Are you sure? Am I sure where I live? Yeah. Steeple Drive. Your cabin is on this road? Is it just me, or is everything I'm saying slightly freaking you out?

What has happened to us? She asked. To this country? The world has gone mad, Jacob murmured.

My head feels like a snow globe that's been shaken, and glitter is swirling around in it like unmoored stars.

She was, he was sure, something else entirely.

I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?" "I know who you are, but..." Maia looked dazed. "You look so...so... shiny.

What?" Jace was still staring at her as if she'd told him she'd found one of the Silent Brothers doing nude cartwheels in the hallway.

Alec looked horrified, as if she'd asked him to put on a tutu and execute a perfect pirouette.

It was not news to him that many people in the world—the entire population of grown-ups, for example—behaved in ways he could not understand.

Everything looks like magic when you don't understand it.