Quotes About Boundaries

If we go beyond what we once thought was our perimeter, then all limits are open to question.

Only those prepared to go too far will learn how far they can go.

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

And I didn't yet understand that just because you can recognize what another person wants and just because that person is older and more powerful than you are, you don't have to give it to them.

which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

The man who invites the wolf in over his threshold is no longer in a position to ask him to leave. That is a truth it were better none of us ever had to learn.' BOOK THREE THE ROSE AND THE CHERRY Her lusty ruby ruddes Resemble the rose buddes; Her lippes soft and merry Enblooméd like the cherry: It were an heavenly bliss Her sugared mouth to kiss.

Los hombres y las mujeres deberían saber que no es posible unirse totalmente en este mundo. En el beso más íntimo, en la caricia más tierna existe un foso, por estrecho que sea. Y frente a él deben inclinarse y someterse con respeto. [...] Él es él y ella es ella y esa distancia nunca se salvará.

It is all possessions, possessions, bullying you and turning you into a generalisation. You must leave your surroundings sketchy, unfinished, so that you are never contained, never confined, never dominated from the outside.

Do you like me?' `Very much! And you see there's no question of kissing between us, is there?' `None at all!' said Connie. `But oughtn't there to be?' ` Why, in God's name? I like Clifford, but what would you say if I went and kissed him?' `But isn't there a difference?

tell your girls, my son, that when they're running after you, they're not to come and ask your mother for you - tell them that - brazen baggages you meet at dancing classes

Just don't ever let it happen to you, Dolores. Let people just shit all over you. Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet that way I did.

Don't you ever become some man's personal toilet the way I did

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand

It was as if the past were surrounded with a great wall; and the future clear and hard as glass. You might explore the past in memory: you couldn't scale its invisible walls.

He also had a trait, so common among innovators, that was charmingly described by his biographer Andrew Hodges: "Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.

Alan was slow to learn that indistinct line that separated initiative from disobedience.

Meanness on request isn't meanness at all, but kindness carried too far.

If you want to write believable fiction, you will have to cross over the line of your self-restraint and revel in the words and ideas that you would never express in your everyday life.

spent together in the same bed and still managing to keep separate and remote.

If economic power is centered outside national African boundaries, then political and military power in any real sense is also centered outside until, and unless, the masses of peasants and workers are mobilized to offer an alternative to the system of sham political independence.

You've gotta keep control of your time, and you can't unless you say no. You can't let people set your agenda in life.

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

Only in intimacy with obscenity can one know what is obscene.

You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.