#confusion

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#hysteria #love #love

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality. ↗

— Robert McKee

#art #awareness #chaos #confusion #emotion

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#conversation #smiling #conversation

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused. ↗

— Jonathan Ames

#literature #reading #literature

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths. ↗

— Criss Jami

#concealment #confusion #contemplation #dishonesty #hardcore

We often confuse what we wish for with what is. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#sad #wishes #confusion

Her eyes met his, but she looked quickly away; entangling gazes with Will was confusing at best, dizzying at worst. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will #confusion

Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he hit the field on all fours-coughed-and something gold fell into his hand. 'I've got the snitch!' he shouted, waving it above his head, and the game ended in complete confusion. 'He didn't catch it, he nearly swalloed it,' Flint was still howling twenty minutes later, but it made no difference-Harry hadn't broken any rules and Lee Jordan was still happily shouting the results-Gryffindor had won by 170 points to 60. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#confusion

The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#mind #run #straight #confusion

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules. ↗

— Caroline Stevermer

#chocolate-pot #confusion #games #rules #confusion