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1 " He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again. "
― Chelsie Shakespeare
2 " The kiss. Oh, the kiss. What a perfect, unnerving, luscious kiss. He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again. "
― Chelsie Shakespeare , The Pull
3 " The British were unhinged by the colonists' unorthodox fighting style and shocking failure to abide by gentlemanly rules of engagement. One scandalized British soldier complained that the American riflemen 'conceal themselves behind trees etc. till an opportunity presents itself of taking a shot at our advance sentries, which done, they immediately retreat. What an unfair method of carrying on a war! "
― Ron Chernow , Alexander Hamilton
4 " ...The coarse rhetoric and reduction of women to violently empty reproductive organs isn't a great way to argue against Trump's vulgarity. The unhinged rhetoric, violent anti-speech street protests,and hysteria currently on display don't make Trump look like he's a unique threat. "
― Mollie Hemingway
5 " As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words. "
― , Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon
6 " There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world. "
― Gerry Abbey , Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
7 " Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible - nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas - where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have been nourished. Minds that have been unhinged from their old faith and love have perhaps sought this Lethean influence of exile in which the past becomes dreamy because its symbols have all vanished, and the present too is dreamy because it is linked with no memories. "
― George Eliot , Silas Marner
8 " Truthfully, from the moment in front of the Chagall, you had me Norah. Until that moment, I didn’t know moments like that existed between a man and a woman. I felt breathless, unhinged and lost, all in one split second because you deterred my future with just one look. You have no idea how completely floored I felt that a girl could so instantly take all my control and direction and all that I knew to be normal, and turn it completely and utterly upside down. "
― Angela Richardson , Pieces of Lies (Pieces of Lies, #1)
9 " A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they – all of them – had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, easy being an angel. And then something happened. Something went wrong or broke down or failed. And they had become faced with the necessity of choosing not good or evil but the lesser of two evils, and so that had unhinged them and now each was a man. "
― Philip K. Dick , Galactic Pot-Healer
10 " By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. "
― Glen Duncan , The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf #1)
11 " Haw Par Villa is the nutty exception. It's mad, slightly unhinged and overwhelmingly rubbish. Without a doubt, Haw Par Villa is the Louis Tussaus House of Wax of Singapore. There is no higher compliment (...) For it's own sake, Haw Par Villa still had to be terrible, macabre, distasteful and offensive. "
― Neil Humphreys , Saving a Sexier Island: Notes from an Old Singapore
12 " Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you. "
13 " What I was sure of was that Tommy had something I'd never seen in anyone else: a blind and unhinged and totally unfounded ambition. He was so out of touch, so lacking in self-awareness, yet also wildly captivating. That night there was this aura around Tommy- an aura of the possible. "
― Greg Sestero , The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
14 " For kids like me, the part of the brain that deals with stress and conflict is always activated...We are constantly ready to fight or flee, because there is a constant exposure to the bear, whether that bear is an alcoholic dad or an unhinged mom (p228)....I see conflict and I run away or prepare for battle. (p246) "
― J.D. Vance , Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
15 " Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics. "
16 " Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy. "
― Idries Shah , Sufi Thought and Action
17 " George unhinged his jaw and coughed up a little plastic bottle filled with chewable vitamins." You're kidding," I said. " Are those Minotaur-shaped?" Hermes picked up the bottle and rattled it. " The lemon ones, yes. The grape ones are Furies, I think. Or are they hydras? At any rate, these are potent." "
18 " I'm having a stress flashback." Davy bonked his head on the table. " My brother has decided to break into the house of the richest guy in the county and seduce his sexpot daughter, under his nose." " I'm not going to seduce her," Sean said crabbily. " I'd go through the front door and talk to her right in front of her mother if I could, but those people think I'm festering sewage sludge." " No. They think you're dangerous, mentally unhinged festering sewage sludge," Davy corrected. "
19 " The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There’s an ethics to projection, an unhinged sense of honesty. Honesty is complicated. The truth is fascinatingly flexible. Lying is boundless. It knows no limits. People lie all the time. Lying is an instinct. It’s human nature. We lie to each other; we lie to ourselves. It isn’t right, but we do. "
― Kris Kidd , Return to Sender
20 " As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats. "
