Quotes About Boundaries

Did he mean for her to look at something she loved and think of him? How dare he. He had no right to give her gifts. No right to remind her she was alone by ensuring that she was not. No right to test whether she had a heart. No right to court her, to please her, or to do whatever he bloody well might be doing by giving her a kitten.

Stop trying to save me. You couldn't then; you can't now.

The surgical nurses were right. Theo Buchanan was gorgeous.. and sexy as hell. But none of that should matter. She was his physician, nothing more, nothing less.. His hair was sticking up and he needed a shave, but he was still sexy. There wasn't anything wrong with her noticing that.. unless, of course, he noticed her noticing.

I never pick up the phone unless I know who it is and I'm scheduled to talk to that person at that time.

There is no place here for softness. Let folk in too close and you offer them up as weapons for your own destruction.

I worked as fast as I could, and let my mind travel ahead only a certain distance, no further.

Sean stood up and stepped toward me, ostensibly to show me the book. He was definitely invading my personal space, as I had learned in a Human Evolution class last summer, and I instinctively backed up till my legs hit the chair I had been sitting in. That just made him move in closer, until the grommets in the leather embossed the backs of my knees, and he finally tilted the book toward me.

Sean only wanted me as a friend. A nonsexual female friend. That was a good thing. There would be no tension to complicate our relationship and my soon-to-be relationship with Jeff Akel. I was relieved.

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

It's one way or another, Summer. For me, it's black and white. You're either in the friend zone or the lover zone. And with you…Gosh, Summer, you're in my danger zone. My rip-my-heart-out and change-me-forever zone. I have to tread lightly with you. Because if I don't, I may never be able to find my way back.

Religious leaders should keep to religion. If they interfere in politics, it spells doom for religion as well as for the kingdom.

Ethics is not a geometrical calculation; others are never very far from us; they and we are co-constituted and entangled through the very cuts we help to enact. Cuts cut things together and apart. Cuts are not enacted from the outside, nor are they ever enacted once and for all.

Ye'll wish a bath this evening, and while I don't mind servin' as yer cook, I'm not washin' yer back. I won't ask if of you, I promise.

The world has no boundaries for someone who savors success and is willing to work for it.

Numbers people don't like being rushed, so back off.

One should never ask a man questions about his personal life. He just might answer and then you, my dear, would have to listen.

Fair warning, as it turned out—kindergarten is all about learning which parts of you are welcome at school and which are not.

No one would have liked that. Maybe I liked it even less. Here we go again, I said to myself. I said this so distinctly in my head that I heard it as well as said it. As if I was quite used to finding someone with no sense of boundaries in my space, fiddling with my things and breaking most of them. Here we go again

No more politics, Grandma Donna had said as a permanent new rule, since we wouldn't agree to disagree and all of us had access to cutlery.

El emparejamiento de los cuerpos no llevaba necesariamente a la unión de las mentes.

Nobody touches my wife and kids. Han

Don't be so openminded your brain falls out.

They'll only get your goat if you show them where you keep your hay.

Never share a bathroom with a man.