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Quotes About Dislocated

What the disorderly crave above everything is order, what the dislocated aspire to is location.
~ Wallace Stegner
Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
The humor for me is how far above your head the signature is - it's dislocated from the sign of the artist in such a distinct way that it could almost be a self-portrait of a sort.
~ Laura Owens
Yes. Your plan is sound. I will go first." Moria stood at his back, dagger raised. Gavril pushed the door. It did not budge. He eyed it and seemed ready to bash his shoulder into it when she whispered, "You cannot fight with a dislocated sword arm, Kitsune. Kick it." He hesitated. "If you fall on your arse, I'll not laugh." She paused. "Or not loudly.
~ Kelley Armstrong
He finds in them many texts that do not fit into the narrow framework that he has made; and because he too often cares for the framework more than for the truth, he manipulates the text until he can make it fit in, in some dislocated fashion.
~ Annie Besant
For the first time in his life he dislocated the course of his thoughts to satisfy a longing in someone else.
~ Ford Madox Ford
Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now.
~ Patrick Carney
We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
~ Joe Baca
I had a moment of clarity, a moment when the world snapped into place like a dislocated joint back into its socket.
~ Sarah Monette
Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.
~ Jason Reitman
Well . . . the good news in all this, he supposed, was that finding out his former trauma surgeon was a ghost? Barely a blip on his radar. His mind had been blown too many times to count, and like a joint that had been dislocated, it had total and complete freedom of movement. Of course, its functionality was fucked. But who was counting.
~ J.R. Ward
This one incident I will not allow you to shrug off!" "I wasn't planning to," Jace said. "I can't shrug anything off. My shoulder's dislocated." -Hodge & Jace, pg.296-
~ Cassandra Clare
I am a broken man Washed ashore in humanity's Low tide Dislocated I feel no kinship with humans I do my best To forget myself
~ Henry Rollins
She is silk in a bed of mail-order satin. Complete and seamless, an egg of sexual muscle. My motions atop her are dislocated, frantic, my lone interstice a trans-cultural spice of encouragement I smell with my spine. As, inside it, I go, I cry out to a god whose absence I have never felt to keenly.
~ David Foster Wallace
As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'? The skull howled with laughter. You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale ? I wouldn't say they handed me my ass, I said. Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. That's because you can't see yourself, he choked out. Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass.
~ Jim Butcher
Almost everywhere, the new urban expressways destroyed wide swaths of existing housing and dislocated people by the tens of thousands.
~ Unknown