Quotes About Boundaries

Mother-in-laws are the worst. You know, they don't like you, they make you feel bad about yourself, they have a divorce party the day you meet them and you have to face the fact that they are crazy. Plus, if you aren't very sure of yourself, you may start feeling like you are going that way too.

That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance away from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished.

For God's sake. Don't build a wall to keep me outside." "I won't build one," she whispered. "I am the wall.

But you were a goody-goody, you said.' 'Even goody-goodies think about such things. In fact, I would say that's what defines us. We're always thinking about the things we don't dare do, figuring out where the lines are drawn, so we can go right up to the edge of things, then plead innocence on the ground of a technicality.

Sex isn't good unless it means something. It doesn't necessarily need to mean love and it doesn't necessarily need to happen in a relationship, but it does need to mean intimacy and connection...There exists a very fine line between being sexually liberated and being sexually used.

You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional and physical well-being more than you want to fuck them. If you cross that line and want sex more than their happiness, then you aren't their friend.

Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.

It means black kitten, I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten? They're wererats, Ares, I said. He frowned at me. They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.

I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.

on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out.

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.

I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.

I never want to put my whole world in any one person's hands again, Jason. If they die, I won't die with them.' 'So you'll hold a little of yourself back from everybody.' 'No,' I said, 'I'll hold back a piece of myself for myself. No one gets all of me, Jason, no one, except me.

We'd put a big sign over our territory saying, Nothing here is worth dying over, but if you insist, we will fucking kill you.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

Why do i put up with you? You insult me at every turn.

What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer.

My answer seemed to please him, and he let it go. Matthew was teaching me not to over explain, to explain just enough to make him happy, and not dig the verbal hole deeper. Talking to children is like testifying in court, answer just what's asked, don't elaborate, and don't volunteer information.

I had to practice this line to use with people who come to signings and things: 'I'm sorry, I don't have sex with strangers.' --Laurell K. Hamilton, www.locusmag.com/2000/Issues/09/Hamil...

I had to practice this line to use with people who come to signings and things: 'I'm sorry, I don't have sex with strangers.' Interview at Locus magazine, 2000

Je nelegální zahrávat si s mrtvými tÄ›ly bez svolení rodiny.

I'd like to save all my friends, but if someone is bent on self-destruction, there is only so much you can do. You can't shovel other people's shit for them, not unless they're willing to pick up a shovel and help.

You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone.