Quotes About Boundaries

Being a martyr is highly overrated.

But you can't marry someone to fix him, even if you love them.

I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

I'm not threatening to kill myself. But you need to know this about me because—if you want to be my mate—I won't be like Leo. I won't let you sleep around with anyone else. I won't be forced either. I've had enough. If that makes me a dog in the manger, so be it. But if I am yours, then you damned well are going to be mine." - Anna to Charles

If creation was given no limit, ultimately everything would cease to exist.

Over the years, she'd learned not to question him too closely—mostly because he wouldn't answer her.

The problem with deciding to bend the rules was trying to figure out just how far you could bend them.

The trick to staying out of trouble is to keep your nose out of other people's business.

I gave him a put-upon sigh. "I am not one of your pack members, Adam. I know this is difficult for you to fathom, so I'll speak slowly: I don't belong to you. I am under no obligation to tell you anything.

This is our territory," I said, giving him the words he needed. "We don't allow black magic in our territory.

I'm not dating Adam.

But he isn't my lover, or my fiancé, or my boyfriend or anything, and I refuse to be killed with him.

She lived here for a while until she couldn't stand having strangers stand outside and shout, "Rachel! Rachel, send down your chair" any longer.

Don't ever delude yourself into thinking that you should have the ability to stay serene no matter how you are treated. Your serenity comes from the knowledge that you have a fundamental right to a nurturing environment and a fundamental right to affirm your boundaries.

In general, when you respond to verbal abuse, speak firmly and clearly, stand or sit straight and tall, hold your head high, look the abuser in the eye, and breathe deeply, letting your abdomen expand with the intake of air.

If the spell can't be broken, if you are with a Spellbound person who will not change, your spiritual, if not your physical survival may depend upon your escaping.

You're too sensitive.

Abusive statements are lies about you which are told to you. They violate your boundaries. The abuser in effect invades your mind, makes up a "story" about your motives, and then tells it to you. No human being has the right to do that to another.

Since name calling is outrageously abusive, it should be responded to with outrage.

If your mate gives you orders, he has forgotten that you are a separate person with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, that you are a free person, and that if he wants something of you, he must make a courteous request.

acting to protect herself, the partner protects her own spirit and regains the security of her natural State of Personal Power.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

The only limit to the energy available to us is the limits of our understanding.

My world has always been so small, hidden behind walls.