Quotes About Boundaries

If I ask, will you answer? It's your problem. A deep deep problem. I have no right to know. I don't have a method of stepping into the depths of your heart without it getting dirty. So I'll wait. When you want to talk, when you think it's okay to talk, talk to me. Until that time, I'll wait." - Rukia Kuchiki

Don't put your finger In my heart

Considerations? No thanks, Howard. That's what they make cages out of.

No! Be weak! Give up! You can't do everything. Lower your standards. Get friends to come and help you.

Love is very powerful, but it has limits and it's a costly mistake to spread it too thin.

You gotta come home. Be with me. After what we been through! We—we signed into that motel as man and wife! You put—you put your mouth on me. Shoulda checked the fine print, hon, whispered Ellen Cherry, trying to assist him back onto the ivy vines as quietly as possible. That blow job did not come with a lifetime warranty.

Definitions are limiting. Limitations are deadening. To limit oneself is a kind of suicide. To limit another is a kind of murder.

Everything depends on knowing how much," she said, and "Good is knowing when to stop.

you got two feet, Sethe, not four. he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

Apparently he thought he deserved only to be loved--from a distance, though--and given what he wanted. And in return he would be . . . what? Pleasant? Generous? Maybe all he was really saying was: I am not responsible for your pain; share your happiness with me but not your unhappiness.

Write at the edges of the day.

Good is knowing when to stop.

Everything depends on knowing how much...Good is knowing when to stop.

And then she knew. Her friends and neighbors were angry at her because she had overstepped, given too much, offended them by excess.

Everything depends on knowing how much {and} Good is knowing when to stop.

What one puts up with in a friendship is determined by the emotional value of the relationship.

At first the people in the town were frightened; they knew Shadrack was crazy but that did not mean that he didn't have any sense or, even more important, that he had no power. [...] Once the people understood the boundaries and nature of his madness, they could fit him, so to speak, into the scheme of things.

East and West, Asia and Europe, were always walls in the mind at least as much as lines on the earth

At the conclusion of the First World War it was borders that were invented and adjusted, while people were on the whole left in place.6 After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

What exactly is a 'gated community' and why does it matter?

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite [to that of WWI], boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

If goodness was like mint... ...It'll spread if it ain't hedged, her ma explained, then told her how mint roots roam under the soil and send up shoots inches, feet away, making more roots, and those roots then roam, send up shoots, making new roots. And up comes more mint. If I don't wall it off, mint will take over the garden. We'll wind up with no corn and cabbages, no beans and tomatoes, no peppers, no goosefoot, no squash, no okra.

But I knew there was something better: there was an outside – an outside of me.

I do not respect you, and I will never let you have any of my fossil fish