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Quotes About Boundaries

Pami?taj, nikt bez twego przyzwolenia nie mo?e sprawi?, ?e poczujesz si? gorsza. To s?owa Eleanor Roosevelt. ?yj? zgodnie z tym mottem.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
What you'll enjoy from someone you're in love with just hits you as clingy from someone you think of more as a sex buddy.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
comfort zones were more like prison bars; they protected you, but they also trapped you. I didn't want to be trapped, not even by myself.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
But you wouldn't be doing me; I don't bottom to anyone,' Nicky said. 'That works for me,' Dev said. I was no longer certain we were joking. Nicky grinned. 'If I come across for you then I'll have to fight off Jean-Claude and Asher. I think I'll stay on this side of the heteroflexible divide; it'll make things less complicated.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If I hadn't already said yes, and loved him to pieces, I'd have told him not only no, but hell no.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He'd let his anger take him to a place that his ass might have trouble getting out of, or maybe I just didn't understand the normal branch of the service whose badge I carried. She put her elbows on the arms of her chair, her hands like a double fist in front of her lips. "Second, get the fuck off my desk." Oh, I did understand the normal branch of the service. It worked just like all the others.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Richard sensed it and pulled away. He went around to the driver's side of his car and opened his door, leaning across to unlock mine. He didn't open the door for me. He knew better than that. I could open my own bloody door. Richard
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
THREE DAYS LATER I WAS STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF JEREMY'S OFFICE wearing nothing but a black lace push-up bra, matching panties, and black thigh-highs. A man I'd never met was fishing down the front of the bra. Normally, I have to be planning to sleep with a man before I let him fondle my breast, but it was nothing personal, just business.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
My lioness was crouched inside me, ready to spring, but would that hurt me more than him? "It means I can feed on things besides sex, and I'm trying very hard not to feed on you." "I know you are trying not to have sex with me." Great. It was like he'd edited what I'd said and heard only the sex part. I should have known he would.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Bogie did not believe in in-laws living with husband and wife, and he didn't believe in anyone dropping in, relatives, even mothers, included. His rule was absolute: Call before and wait for an invitation. His home was sacred, and privacy to be respected.
~ Lauren Bacall
This was how things worked. Period. Short of death (immediate family only), dismemberment (your own), or nuclear war (only if confirmed by the U.S. government to be directly affecting Manhattan), one was to be present. This would be a watershed moment in the Priestly regime.
~ Lauren Weisberger
If you want to be loved, don't take on responsibility.
~ Lauren Willig
If you want to be loved, don't take on responsibility.
~ Lauren Willig
Europeans knew little about the ocean beyond latitude 27°N, marked by Cape Bojador in West Africa.
~ Laurence Bergreen
When a marriage works, it is in no small part because a woman and a man have come to recognize in precise measure when enough has been said.
~ Laurence Shames
It's none of your business what I'm aware of.
~ Laurence Shames
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. As no one, who knows what he is about in good company, would venture to talk all, so no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good breeding, would presume to think all. The truest respect which you can pay to the reader's understanding, is to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.
~ Laurence Sterne
It's like she thinks she's your mother or something.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
No, liebchen, not if it's too painful for you to talk about it." "Devious sheenie bastard." "Devious, yes. Sheenie, yes. Bastard, no. What did you used to do in bed?
~ Lawrence Block
I survive at the edge of friends circles.
~ Holly Black, Red Glove
'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.
~ John Wilkins
Belief begins where science leaves off and ends where science begins.
~ Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.
~ Frederick Soddy
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
~ G.K. Chesterton