Quotes About Boundaries

The idea that a woman's body has boundaries that must not be violated is fairly new. We evidently haven't taken it far enough. Can we extend that idea? Or are women the pliable sex, innately dapted to being shaped, cut, and subjected to physical invasion? Does the female body deserve the same notion of integrity as the male body?

Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles the little lamb who crept into the den of the nice, gentle little wolf and begged to be permitted to lie down and go to sleep, or the canary

Relating personal problems to associates and customers. Your personal problems are important to you—and only you. Everyone has their share and they don't want to hear about yours.

The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

Living at once inside and outside the framework, Hester is able to see the frame.

The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

Is it a crime, she thought, to use some one else's funeral as your own? A crime to take over another's room and closet and life and cassettes and telephone number?

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A sane person didn't stand under a tree; they didn't allow the cat in the house; and above all, they did not take a bath in a storm.

It's normal to dream about anything at all. It's not normal to dream someone else's dreams. -Arthur Mentis

With her it was like there was two places—the inside room and the outside room.

transcendence, if it meant anything at all, was the accommodation to limits: a finding of freedom within them, not a breaking of them.

Not even the Superintendent could play about with gravity.

This is not to say that there is a clear line of demarcation between the living and the non-living. For the ancients, mould and mildew were not clearly differentiated from rust; from our perspective, prions and viruses are also indeterminate. They can reproduce their kind and they employ resources from their hosts to do so, but they do not have life cycles as plants and animals do.

The thing is, when you let people get too close, you end up getting hurt.

Not like a heart, which let people in without permission, held them in a special place she never had any say in and then yearned for them to remain there longer than they planned.

Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.

I know the difference between right and wrong. I understand the rules. But today I feel that the rules have been blurred, because today they were literally on my front doorstep.

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You're both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

I feel now like I'm living in a goldfish bowl and all I can see and hear from every window in my home is you. You, you, you.

What we didn't need to know, we didn't need to ask. Some people just don't quite get the gist of that. You can have plenty of conversations with people, meaningful conversations without getting to personal.

I'm not one of those people who live and breathes their job, I don't take it so seriously that I want to stay longer than I am paid for or want to socialize with people I spend most of my waking hours with and would never choose to say more than two words to in the real world.