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Quotes About Boundaries

Hey. Hands off.", "Please. Please, please, soooo pretty. Lemme just have one little touch." "Peabody, isn't it embarrassing enough you're wearing pink cowboy boots, again, without standing here drooling on my coat?
~ J.D. Robb
I crossed the line." "The line shifts." Now he gave those shoulders a quick, impatient shake. "If the law, if justice has no compassion, no fluidity, no humanity, how is it justice?
~ J.D. Robb
It would be sheer hell to be privy to thoughts and memories without some power to control and block. I don't like to pry into personal thoughts. And it hurts
~ J.D. Robb
But that was personal. No one, absolutely no one comes into our home and speaks to you that way.
~ J.D. Robb
Besonders rätselhaft ist die Frage, in welchem historischen Zeitalter wir leben: in einem puritanischen oder einem freizügigen. ....Einerseits haben Eltern nichts dagegen einzuwenden, wenn ihre sechzehnjährige Tochter einen Jungen zum Übernachten mit nach Hause bringt. Vielleicht bieten sie sogar den beiden am nächsten Morgen Frühstück an. Andererseits wird ein Erwachsener, der am Strand ein Foto von einem Kind im Badeanzug macht, ins Gefängnis gesteckt.
~ J.M. Coetzee
No, yo ya estoy casada, gracias –le dije–. Búscate una mujer más apropiada que yo, alguien que te haga salir de ti mismo.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Te comportas como si todo lo que hago yo fuese parte de la historia de tu vida.
~ J.M. Coetzee
how natural a mistake to believe that you can burn or tear or hack your way into the secret body of the other!
~ J.M. Coetzee
For fuck's sake, get off the cross. Someone else needs the wood.
~ J.R. Ward
Butch: -I hear ya. No one's biz but yours. One question though Vishous: -What Butch: -When the females tie you down, do they paint your toe-nails and shit? Or just do your makeup? Wait... they tickle your pits with feather, right?
~ J.R. Ward
Qhuinn smiled, baring his fangs. 'Has anyone ever shown you the difference between good touch and bad touch? 'Cause I'd love to demonstrate. We could start right now.
~ J.R. Ward
If you're going to insist on being reasonable, I'm going to stop hanging with you.
~ J.R. Ward
Uh-huh, right. Let me count all the ways you and I aren't going there.
~ J.R. Ward
Because my patient just sat herself up--and I'm not talking about her raising her torso off the damn pillows. I wasn't there when she did it and I need to see how it happened. Red Sox seemed to stop breathing. What...I'm sorry. What the fuck are you saying. Do I need to reenact it in charades or some shit? I'll pass on that--I so don't need you on your knees in front of me with only a towel on. Which makes two of us. Wait, are you serious? Yeah. I'm really not interested in blowing you, either.
~ J.R. Ward
You asked me to speak. If this is a problem, the solution is not to get defensive because you don't like what you hear. The answer is to not invite me to talk. iAm ~ Lover At Last
~ J.R. Ward
Ah, now, don't get all mushy on me. We ain't dating. Butch
~ J.R. Ward
The heart of another is never ours to demand if it is not freely given.
~ J.R. Ward
Some bridges you crossed on your own, no matter who drove you to the edge.
~ J.R. Ward
Why can't I use my laptop to take notes?" To which the Brother Tohrment had replied, "Because the tap-tapping of a keyboard makes me want to get my shotgun. Do you feel like having a cranial leak tonight?" Ward, J.R. (2015-12-01). Blood Kiss: Black Dagger Legacy (p. 229). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
~ J.R. Ward
Because, hey, nothing says, "I wanna date ya," like grounds for a restraining order.
~ J.R. Ward
Thou Shalt Not Mack on Your Patients
~ J.R. Ward
Don't even fucking think about it." … "I don't know what you're talking about--" "Do not make me grab your hard-one to prove my point
~ J.R. Ward
Here was the thing: People felt the way they did and it wasn't their fault or yours if the connection was one-sided. It just . . . was.
~ J.R. Ward
At the end of the day, people have to earn the right to be in your life
~ J.R. Ward