confusion

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
4c3c772	It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.	confusion	J.D. Salinger
7fce05f	And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.	confusion grief happiness	J.D. Salinger
63ebd52	Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.	circumstance confusion death fate killed miracles miraculous saved	Terry Pratchett
896a014	God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one	confusion faith inspirational love	Rumi
414c9da	"I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "--or the best. Now I'm all confused."	confusion exposed-truth jon lying	Tamora Pierce
181a21c	"Why am I letting you comfort me?" He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to."	confusion deceit love manipulation	Kresley Cole
a0b46a3	The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.	confusion effect humour service waiter zaphod-beeblebrox	Douglas Adams
dfcecdc	"He rolled his eyes and took my hand. His hand was hard and calloused, tough with muscle and old scars. The night settled around us like a blanket. I could hear the water lapping against the dock. We were totally alone. "You're . . . ," he began, and I waited, heart throbbing in my throat. "Such a pain," he concluded. "What?" I asked, just as his head swooped in and his mouth touched mine. I tried to speak, but one of Fang's hands held the back of my head, and he kept his lips pressed against me, kissing me softly but with a Fanglike determination. Oh, jeez, I thought distractedly. Jeez, this is Fang, and me, and . . . Fang tilted his head to kiss me more deeply, and I felt totally lightheaded. Then I remembered to breathe through my nose, and the fog cleared a tiny bit. Somehow we were pressed together, Fang's arms around me now, sliding under my wings, his hands flat against my back. It was incredible. I loved it. I loved him. It was a total disaster. Gasping, I pulled back. "I, uh--," I began oh so coherently, and then I jumped up, almost knocking him over, and raced down the dock. I took off, flying fast, like a rocket." --	best-friends brb-dying confusion feelings friendship funny holding-hands jealousy kiss lol love night otp pain pals weird wings	James Patterson
7f43905	She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.	confusion floating metaphor mind ocean sad scared	Caroline B. Cooney
c24ae70	He had always thought there was an answer to all life's mysteries in the stars, yet whenever he stared at them the answer slipped out of his grasp... But he had to think now, and he stared at the smoke-dimmed stars in the hope that they would help him, but all they did was go on shining.	confusion stars	Bernard Cornwell
e445ccb	There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.	confusion	Cormac McCarthy
1c9d77f	"Why'd you want to kill yourself? Didn't you feel anything, or didn't it hurt you?" Mandy questioned, looking puzzled. "Yes, I suppose it did, ... it was strange, it was sharp, that's all I can think of to describe it... and cold, but not cold like ice, more like... I don't know, like something much worse, something horrible... and it seemed like the ground was falling upwards, becoming the sky... for a moment it made me consider that it was just a dream, that I was on some sort of drug, and then I remember being overjoyed to see the sky was still above me, then just really sad, really tired... and then I don't remember much else about it," Alecto told her, glaring straight ahead at the sky with narrowed eyes. "I don't mind, I'm not supposed to mind, anyway. Mearth already told me that eventually I would want to be dead, that it was inevitable... still, I sometimes wish that I could have done something good for other people in my life, it might have made up for all the bad stuff I've done."	canada confusion creepy dark death drugs dying dysfunctional friend friends friendship grief halloween help loss morbid nostalgia sadness self-harm self-mutilation spooky suicide swing-set	Rebecca McNutt
635e75b	The days had become a confusion of catastrophes; what seemed impossible in the afternoon was blunt fact by the evening.	confusion	David Benioff
706feee	I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.	confusion regrets roads	H.P. Lovecraft
79a116b	Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas--only I don't exactly know what they are!	confusion humor jargon writing	Lewis Carroll
e64e983	The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors.	confusion life pain	P.D. James
9626d75	Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway. 'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream. 'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully. 'Huh?' said Lester.	brother confusion funny genitals girl gross hand-mirror humorous mirror random resentful sexuality sibling sour-cream teenage-boy teenage-girl weird woman	Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3a2e5fc	There was another problem with Emma's father, difficult for a small child who already thought of herself as greedy - his way of trying to keep her attention, to bribe her, with gifts. On each vof her visits, he would appear with you presents, beautifully wrapped> And her confusion that she liked - and wanted - the presents, but not the man, was painful. He used 'sparkly Sellotape' and cut things into nice shapes and she wistfully writes:	confusion emotional-neglect emotional-pain mixed-messages	Carol Lee
733cf38	"...Look, I'm real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot," Mandy apologized gloomily. "It's wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution." "It's alright, I think she wants to be remediated," Alecto told her calmly, though his grief-stricken and depressed expression said more to Mandy than his words did. "You don't have to forget Cheryl, no matter what Mearth said to you," Mandy pointed out. "People shouldn't be forced to forget what they love, or to just get over the death of what they love. Cheryl was your friend and nobody can make you forget her if you don't want to."	confusion death depression fear friendship grief grief-stricken help hope lonliness loss love memory pollution remediation removal uncertainty	Rebecca McNutt
8c17eee	Back in grade school, my shrinks tried to channel my viciousness into a constructive outlet, so I cut things with scissors. Heavy, cheap fabrics Diane bought by the bolt. I sliced through them with old metal shears going up and down: . The soft growl of the fabrics as I sliced it apart, and that perfect last moment, when your thumb is getting sore and your shoulders hurt from hunching and cut, cut, cut... free, the fabric now swaying in two pieces in your hands, a curtain parted. And then what? That's how I felt now, like I'd been sawing away at something and come to the end and here I was by myself again, in my small house with no job, no family, and I was holding two ends of fabric and didn't know what to do next.	confusion fabric hate life school therapy	Gillian Flynn

4c3c772

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

confusion

J.D. Salinger

7fce05f

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

confusion grief happiness

J.D. Salinger

63ebd52

Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

circumstance confusion death fate killed miracles miraculous saved

Terry Pratchett

896a014

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

confusion faith inspirational love

Rumi

414c9da

"I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you." "I should hope so. You're the worst liar I've ever met." He thought about it for a moment, then added, "--or the best. Now I'm all confused."

confusion exposed-truth jon lying

Tamora Pierce

181a21c

"Why am I letting you comfort me?" He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to."

confusion deceit love manipulation

Kresley Cole

a0b46a3

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

confusion effect humour service waiter zaphod-beeblebrox

Douglas Adams

dfcecdc

"He rolled his eyes and took my hand. His hand was hard and calloused, tough with muscle and old scars. The night settled around us like a blanket. I could hear the water lapping against the dock. We were totally alone. "You're . . . ," he began, and I waited, heart throbbing in my throat. "Such a pain," he concluded. "What?" I asked, just as his head swooped in and his mouth touched mine. I tried to speak, but one of Fang's hands held the back of my head, and he kept his lips pressed against me, kissing me softly but with a Fanglike determination. Oh, jeez, I thought distractedly. Jeez, this is Fang, and me, and . . . Fang tilted his head to kiss me more deeply, and I felt totally lightheaded. Then I remembered to breathe through my nose, and the fog cleared a tiny bit. Somehow we were pressed together, Fang's arms around me now, sliding under my wings, his hands flat against my back. It was incredible. I loved it. I loved him. It was a total disaster. Gasping, I pulled back. "I, uh--," I began oh so coherently, and then I jumped up, almost knocking him over, and raced down the dock. I took off, flying fast, like a rocket." --

best-friends brb-dying confusion feelings friendship funny holding-hands jealousy kiss lol love night otp pain pals weird wings

James Patterson

7f43905

She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.

confusion floating metaphor mind ocean sad scared

Caroline B. Cooney

c24ae70

He had always thought there was an answer to all life's mysteries in the stars, yet whenever he stared at them the answer slipped out of his grasp... But he had to think now, and he stared at the smoke-dimmed stars in the hope that they would help him, but all they did was go on shining.

confusion stars

Bernard Cornwell

e445ccb

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

confusion

Cormac McCarthy

1c9d77f

"Why'd you want to kill yourself? Didn't you feel anything, or didn't it hurt you?" Mandy questioned, looking puzzled. "Yes, I suppose it did, ... it was strange, it was sharp, that's all I can think of to describe it... and cold, but not cold like ice, more like... I don't know, like something much worse, something horrible... and it seemed like the ground was falling upwards, becoming the sky... for a moment it made me consider that it was just a dream, that I was on some sort of drug, and then I remember being overjoyed to see the sky was still above me, then just really sad, really tired... and then I don't remember much else about it," Alecto told her, glaring straight ahead at the sky with narrowed eyes. "I don't mind, I'm not supposed to mind, anyway. Mearth already told me that eventually I would want to be dead, that it was inevitable... still, I sometimes wish that I could have done something good for other people in my life, it might have made up for all the bad stuff I've done."

canada confusion creepy dark death drugs dying dysfunctional friend friends friendship grief halloween help loss morbid nostalgia sadness self-harm self-mutilation spooky suicide swing-set

Rebecca McNutt

635e75b

The days had become a confusion of catastrophes; what seemed impossible in the afternoon was blunt fact by the evening.

confusion

David Benioff

706feee

I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.

confusion regrets roads

H.P. Lovecraft

79a116b

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas--only I don't exactly know what they are!

confusion humor jargon writing

Lewis Carroll

e64e983

The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors.

confusion life pain

P.D. James

9626d75

Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway. 'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream. 'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully. 'Huh?' said Lester.

brother confusion funny genitals girl gross hand-mirror humorous mirror random resentful sexuality sibling sour-cream teenage-boy teenage-girl weird woman

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

3a2e5fc

There was another problem with Emma's father, difficult for a small child who already thought of herself as greedy - his way of trying to keep her attention, to bribe her, with gifts. On each vof her visits, he would appear with you presents, beautifully wrapped> And her confusion that she liked - and wanted - the presents, but not the man, was painful. He used 'sparkly Sellotape' and cut things into nice shapes and she wistfully writes:

confusion emotional-neglect emotional-pain mixed-messages

Carol Lee

733cf38

"...Look, I'm real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot," Mandy apologized gloomily. "It's wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution." "It's alright, I think she wants to be remediated," Alecto told her calmly, though his grief-stricken and depressed expression said more to Mandy than his words did. "You don't have to forget Cheryl, no matter what Mearth said to you," Mandy pointed out. "People shouldn't be forced to forget what they love, or to just get over the death of what they love. Cheryl was your friend and nobody can make you forget her if you don't want to."

confusion death depression fear friendship grief grief-stricken help hope lonliness loss love memory pollution remediation removal uncertainty

Rebecca McNutt

8c17eee

Back in grade school, my shrinks tried to channel my viciousness into a constructive outlet, so I cut things with scissors. Heavy, cheap fabrics Diane bought by the bolt. I sliced through them with old metal shears going up and down: . The soft growl of the fabrics as I sliced it apart, and that perfect last moment, when your thumb is getting sore and your shoulders hurt from hunching and cut, cut, cut... free, the fabric now swaying in two pieces in your hands, a curtain parted. And then what? That's how I felt now, like I'd been sawing away at something and come to the end and here I was by myself again, in my small house with no job, no family, and I was holding two ends of fabric and didn't know what to do next.

confusion fabric hate life school therapy

Gillian Flynn