“I’ve been trying to figure something out. Why on earth would your ponytail stick straight out from your head?”

“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”

“Oh, Lillian. Trying to make order of the chaos that is love is like trying to figure out why chocolate ice cream makes your toes curl.”

“It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.”

“I’ve found newspapers only useful as kindling material for campfires. It’s been said that newspaper articles are written at a fifth grade reading level. If so, I can’t figure out why journalists would write something that the average high school senior can’t even read.”

“Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.”