Quotes About Boundaries

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

It's strange to remember how we used to think, as if everything were available to us, as if there were no contingencies, no boundaries; as if we were free to shape and reshape forever the everexpanding perimeters of our lives.

Nobody has any authority on the fucks that other people give.

If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking.

Just because people are related to you doesn't mean you love them

Our curiosity is supposed to have limits, though these have never been defined exactly.

Those walls and bars are there for a reason,' said Crake. ' Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in both cases

Now she said, "I'm up to the four-letter words." And I said, "You mean the dirty ones, like shit?" And she laughed and said, "Worse ones than that." And I said, "You mean the c-word and the f-word?" and she said, "No. Like love.

It's strange to remember how we used to think, as if everything were available to us, as if there were no contingencies, no boundaries; as if we were free to shape and reshape forever the everexpanding perimeters of our lives. I was like that too, I did that too.

Words are so often like window curtains, a decorative screen put up to keep the neighbours at a distance.

if you want people to leave you alone you should act crazy.

take your time, leave mine alone

Art is what you can get away with, said somebody or other, which makes it sound like shoplifting or some other minor crime. And maybe that's all it ever was, or is: a kind of stealing. A hijacking of the visual.

Non temono che ce ne andiamo di nascosto. Non arriveremmo lontano. Temono altre fughe, quelle che puoi aprirti dentro, se hai un oggetto con un bordo tagliente.

Love was its own transparent bubble-dome: you could see the two inside it, but you couldn't get in there yourself. That

Well of course people cross genres all the time. You could have something called science-fiction-fantasy. Some galaxy far, far away and in another time with spaceships, but also dragons. And there's no rule that says you can't do that.

God made them that way but He did not make you that way. He made you different. It's up to you to set the boundaries.

You can fall in love with anybody — a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.

The opposite of 'mean' is 'doormat

Una rata que está dentro de un laberinto es libre de ir a cualquier sitio, siempre que permanezca dentro del laberinto.

Are you a smuggler? [...] He laughed. Borders - lines on a map. Things move across, people too. I'm just the delivery boy.

My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business - Rhett Butler

She could never respect a man who let her run over him...

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.