Quotes About Boundaries

Don't ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why are you allowing it to happen.

If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

And in those moments, Park thought about pulling back from her."Not breaking up with her. That phrase didn't even seem to apply here. Just . . . erasing away. Recovering the six inches between them

I know my worth. Never again will I condemn myself to the prison of a bad relationship.

There is something beyond limits, in every relationship.

Relationship is made for two people, but obviously some people don't know how to count.

An emotionally abusive relationship, in very simplistic terms, is much like standing up in a too hot bath and sinking back in so as not to feel so dizzy.

I understand that if you say a certain word over and over and it begins to make you feel bad then you should goddamn stop saying that word.

So much of what exists in the outside world is kept out of Molotschna, but curses, like pain, always find a way in.

I'd made "Fever" Mom's ring tone because the song was about getting the flu from being too close to someone. I thought it was a good choice because she holds me tight and kisses me all the time and she's always blowing her nose on me and it makes me sick and gives me fever—but now I wasn't sure it was the right ring tone after all. I didn't want to have a sexy ring tone for Mom on my cellphone!

YOU TAKA MY SPACE I BREAKA YOUR FACE

You cannot ask things to do what they are not meant to do. Eventually, they will break.

The distance between death and life is not as great as you imagine.

Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do";

Accept what you are to do and what you are not able to do

Such journeys have convinced me that it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be.

it is not always possible to restore one's boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be. Something of us is now outside, and something of the outside is now within us.

But if you do not wish to speak, I do not wish to hear.

There is no such thing as a truly single person, only a lonely one. Humans are porous in the borders of our skins, these walking micro cities.

But certain others, they move in and make themselves at home and start flapping their arms in the story you make of your life. They have a wingspan.

Never apologise, never explain.

Hearing: listening and speaking with patience and under- standing; Encouraging: helping each other; Dating: keeping it fresh and fun; Guarding: agreeing on your boundaries—and enforcing them; Educating: becoming an expert on your mate; Satisfying: meeting each other's needs.

Maybe he would let me come in, but he'd want to close the doors up again behind me.

even grief had its limits