Quotes About Boundaries

Be very, very careful who you let into your life. And learn to make peace with whatever happens. You can't erase the past. It's trapped in there with you. But you can make peace with it. If you don't,' he said, 'you'll be at perpetual war.

And love and attachment?' asked Gamache. 'Mothers and children are classic examples. Some mothers see their job as preparing their kids to live in the big old world. To be independent, to marry and have children of their own. To live wherever they choose and do what makes them happy. That's love. Others, and we all see them, cling to their children. Move to the same city, the same neighborhood. Live through them. Stifle them. Manipulate, use guilt-trips, cripple them.

The goal of any healthy society was to keep people safe to express sometimes unpopular views. But there was a limit to that expression, a line.

How do you make yourself not like someone?

Jas, whatever Tom has under his trousers is between you and him.

I don't love you any less, but I can't love you anymore.

As a rule, never work for friends. Sooner or later they resent you because you know so much about them. Or else you'll no longer like them, because you do.)

Perhaps that's just what music is: the search for a boundary that is continually being shifted.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that is good taste.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

A tree cannot grow in the sky, nor clouds be in the deep sea, nor fish live in the fields, nor can blood be in sticks nor sap in rocks.

Well basically,' said Nell, 'I want to question the value of confinement. An enclosed community is toxic. It festers. It stagnates. The wrong people thrive there. The sort of people who actually like being walled in.

I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body, so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Where is the line? We're taught to stand up for ourselves; we're taught to stand up for others we care about. But all of a sudden, there's a new line drawn by the law. You sit back, it says, and let us deal with this.

But no one ever said yes to make sex consensual. You took hints from body language, from the way two people came together. Why...didn't a shake of the head or a hand pushing hard against a chest speak just as loudly? Why did you have to actually say the word no for it to be rape?

you need to think about the difference between what is secret and what is private.

How do you undo intimacy? How do you go back to being acquaintances, when the other person knows every inch and groove of you, every irrational fear, every trigger?

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

Don't go fighting my battles for me.

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If someone else takes a bite of my food, I have to cut off the part that his/her saliva has touched before I can eat any more of it.

And then he remembered that in the outside world, no one had to unlock a door before he entered