Quotes About Boundaries

I guess you could pay off the management to let you bring in a SecUnit and weapons and do a hostage exchange, but they drew the line at giving you free feed access.

She would never trust me again. She would never stand close enough to touch (but without touching, because touching is gross) and just trust me.

Seriously, I don't know why I didn't just say you're welcome and please get out of my cubicle so I can sit here and leak in peace.

Humans never think to tell their bots things like, say, don't respond to random individuals wandering the outside of the station. Bots are instructed to report and repel theft attempts, but no one ever tells them not to answer polite requests from other bots.)

ART had an alternate, more drastic plan that included giving me sex-related parts, and I told it that was absolutely not an option. I didn't have any parts related to sex and I liked it that way. I had seen humans have sex on the entertainment feed and on my contracts, when I had been required to record everything the clients said and did. No, thank you, no. No.

Can we hug you?" Maro let go of Tapan and faced me. "Uh." I didn't step back, but it must have been obvious the answer was no. Maro nodded. "Okay. This is for you." She wrapped her arms around herself and squeezed.

She showed her fangs. "Just let her get to know you, then she definitely won't bother you.

within easy unwanted talking range.

No hugging," I warned her. It was in our contract. "Do you need emotional support? Do you want me to call someone?

Children needed space more than overprotection. Parents who hovered were meeting their own needs, not their children's.

Three P's: Personal Pacing, Priorities, and Parameters

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.

Union with God respects all distinctions between creation and Creator and is characterized by awareness of the presence and the transparency of perceived boundaries.

Americans' reputation for friendliness is the absence of physicality. In the United States, no one ever touches anyone else and if they do so by accident, most apologize immediately. Physical contact is seen by many as analogous to trespassing on posted land,

You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our system. The other is the people close around you, knowing when to accept their criticism, knowing when to say no.

ain't learned much, but one thing I have learned is this: everyone wants to fuck you, girl, either physically or mentally. You have to put a limit on the shit you're willing to take and no turning back.

If we had been left to our own devices we would have been all right. But, oh, no. I had to have the mother-in-law from hell poking her nose in, opening her big trap.

People only do to you what you let them.

That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.

A woman doesn't just wake up one morning and decide to have an affair. No. The affair happens when day after day she fails to put on the brakes with her thoughts, fantasies, and sexual boundaries.

It's important to note that interdependence differs from what is sometimes called "codependence"—that is, an unhealthy relationship in which an individual's sense of identity and worth is wrapped up in the other person.

Privacy is something that we maintain for the good of ourselves and others. Secrecy we keep to separate ourselves from others, even those we love.