Quotes About Boundaries

Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than once a day, never more than a pinch at a time, and never more than two days in a row.

It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no.

I say, because if she doesn't want to talk about that part, she doesn't have to.

Just because I am to protect you does not give you governance over me.

Fight your fight,' she tells me. 'Let someone else worry about theirs.

I note how stiff they are with each other, how carefully they keep separate, as magnets must keep a safe distance or be slammed together by their very nature.

Once you're wed, if you want to take other lovers, she better be with you when you do it and she better be into it. If it's not fun for everyone, it's not happening.

Revelry is inherently slippery; part of its munificence is an easing of boundaries.

No, I won't help you. No I won't hear you explain why I should. It really is a magical word: no. You say whatever bullshit you want, and I just say no.

Everyone knows that trekkers and whatever starwarsians call themselves aren't supposed to have anything to do with one another.

Dü?üncelerimi kendi üzerime çevirerek dü?ündüm: Kendisinin de özgür kalmas?n? dileyecek kadar sevmiyordu beni. Sevgi suç i?lemekten kaç?n?rsa s?n?r? var gibi görünür bize; oysa sevgi sonsuz olmal?d?r. Kalbim korkunç burkuldu. "Sevmiyor beni!" diye dü?ündüm.

There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

We are, after all, not gods.

Al igual que el río siempre está a la puerta, así está siempre el mundo de puertas afuera. Y es en ese mundo donde estamos obligados a vivir.

It was like she was thinking, How far can I go with this? How much more can I fit in my life without losing control?

Her goodness had limits. She could have easily gone her whole life without knowing those limits, but now she knew exactly where they lay.

When you divorce someone, you divorce their whole family, Madeline had told her once.

It was why marriages fell apart. It was why, if you valued your marriage, you kept a barricade around yourself and your feelings and your thoughts. You didn't let your eyes linger. You didn't stay for the second drink. You kept the flirting safe. You just didn't go there.

He liked his friends, but he had no interest in hearing their personal problems and he therefore couldn't share his own. He

But each time she didn't leave, she gave him tacit permission to do it again. She knew this. She was an educated woman with choices, places to go,

Do not engage. Remove yourself from the emotional minefield.

It wasn't always necessary to tell your husband the whole story.

She always pretended to herself that she didn't let Lauren help because she was trying to be the perfect mother-in-law, but really, when you didn't let a woman help, it was a way of keeping her at a distance, of letting her know that she wasn't family, of saying I don't like you enough to let you into my kitchen. Lauren reappeared

I don't think it works like that," said Joy. "It starts out small. You put up with little things in a relationship and then … the little things gradually get bigger.