Quotes About Boundaries

I figure a friend has the right to offend you at least once.

Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin.

Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.

Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. / Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf / Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, / Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Great wits are near to madness, closely allied and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

But why do you have to keep your distance from me, why can't you see me, talk to me like a real person…like Drew, not some kind of distant non-friend." "Non-friend?" Drew smiled drily at my choice of words. "I like the sound of that better than 'friends', Summer. It probably describes us best." - Perfect Summer

When I said I'd stay over, I didn't know that this was what you had in mind. I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I… if you want me to go home now, that's fine.", Summer Jones in Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

With all those one night stands of his," Nat explains, "he had to learn to dress fast. He has to get out of there before a girl can think he might actually care." I look at Drew and he shrugs again. "They know what they're getting into," he says. "Why complicate things with emotional stuff?" "You're a pig, you know that?" Rachel calls out from the pool., Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Look, it may seem like they're all the friends you have, but if you get pressured into doing something you don't want, you will only end up hating what you've done and feeling bad about yourself. That's worse than having so-called friends who don't want you as a friend just because you didn't do what they wanted you to." - Saving You Saving Me by Kailin Gow

Rachel gave him a warning look. She knew what her twin brother could be like. "Don't you dare go there," she said. "Summer's one of my best friends. You are not just going to play with her and sleep with her like all the other girls you date. She's off limits, Drew. I mean it.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

Relationships--of all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person, it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively, and the relationship slips away and is lost.

I've always said in interviews that I am a man I've never claimed to be anything but. Other than for performances, the women's clothing is in a box.

I don't like to talk about other bands in interviews.

I mean just like the police don't tell me how to do the interviews, you know, we don't tell them how to do their business.

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

I've had so many interviews where the last question is, Are you gay? I had to find very creative ways to say that I was gay, but that I wasn't going to talk about it.

I try to stay away from forced intimacy.

I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.

I had a lot of inhibitions where I was not comfortable doing intimate scenes.

I have never done intimate scenes on any of my shows, and now, after marriage, it's a complete 'No.'

I don't know that I want to share all my most intimate secrets.

I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.