Quotes About Boundaries

Fantasies were like prisoners, less likely to stage a revolt if allowed judicious amounts of supervised exercise.

What is there to think about? What Mrs. Watson and her friend do and don't do with each other doesn't affect you to any extent.

Texting offers just the right amount of access, just the right amount of control. She is a modern Goldilocks: for her, texting puts people not too close, not too far, but at just the right distance. The world is now full of modern Goldilockses, people who take comfort in being in touch with a lot of people whom they also keep at bay.

This is the experience of living full time on the Net, newly free in some ways, newly yoked in others. We are all cyborgs now.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.

When habitual structures dissolve, so do boundaries between people.

My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.

For shame, Miss Hunt. If your grandfather learned you had taken the liberty of inspecting the tools of one of his workers, he might just tan your hide.

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

I learned a long time ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides, the pig likes it.

Every Relationship would be perfect..... If only a third person didn't give his/her free advice

John Cassavetes once gave me some advice that has proved invaluable... He said, 'We're good friends, but never, ever do an artistic favor for a friend. Loan friends money, be there for them in every other way, but don't do them any artistic favors, because you've got to have one area of your life where there's no room for compromise.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

Your whole house smells of dog, says someone who comes to visit. I say I'll take care of it. Which I do by never inviting that person to visit again.

Once again I come upon his famous definition of love: two solitudes that protect and border and greet each other.

Please don't try and hug me. Everyone always wants to hug me, and I am not the hugging type.

Well, that's splendid!" Mr. Goat said. "As long as we preserve our friendship—that's the important thing." "Yes!" Olivia said. "Exactly!" There was a pause. "Can I kiss you?" Mr. Goat said. Olivia groaned. "I just want to be friends," she said firmly. "That's all." "I

Love is a question of geography.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha. Very funny. Believe me, you don't have anything I haven't seen before." "Wanna bet?" he says, then moves his hands to the button on his jeans and pops it open. Isabel walks in at that exact moment. "Whoa, Alex. Please keep your pants on.