Quotes About Boundaries

Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

Your relationship with your husband should be an important part of your private life, but publicly you should be able to define yourself.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

she advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamned cunt.

Keep away. The sow is mine.

Well, specifically, Mrs. MacNeil, she advised me to keep my goddamn fingers away from her cunt.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

For stony limits cannot hold love out.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

The power of any art is limited

La manera más eficaz de sacar a alguien de tu vida es echártelo encima. Cargarlo todo el tiempo, para que hasta cuando sonría te parezca insoportable.

Uno sabe que tiene madera de villano cuando descubre en cada límite ajeno un desafío propio.

Eso es lo más podrido de tener un novio, que te pasas la vida haciendo excepciones. Cosas que nunca te daría la gana hacer.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

Humans need cages around their bodies – wombs, houses, coffins.

This generation possessed freedom and material wealth their elders could only dream of, and they looked for the miracle of love in the void between Chinese and Western culture. They created idealised versions of themselves on the internet, and pushed the boundaries of what they thought love could be. But as this generation grew accustomed to the loneliness of living without brothers and sisters, the family could no longer be considered the backbone of Chinese culture.

Ibland sätter jag händerna mot väggen och försöker föreställa mig hur det är utanför. Jag tänker att det kanske kan gå att uppfatta någonting genom händernas beröring med väggen. Sådant som vindriktning, kyla, fukt, platsen du är på, vattnets porlande floden. Men det går aldrig. Väggen är bara en vägg. Det finns ingenting bakom den, den är inte sammankopplad med någonting.

The Jew is born as free as the wind, as indomitable as the Judean desert. Why did he mark the boundaries of his homeland so carelessly that it was nearly taken from him? Because for a long time he believed that the Promised Land is, first and foremost, the land where there's no wall to keep him from seeing farther than his cries can carry.

Just because somebody smiles when he hands me a bag of shit, that doesn't mean I have to take it. I don't give a damn how friendly he is. It's what he does that matters.

Other people's sex lives are a little like other people's holidays: you're glad that they had fun but you weren't there and don't necessarily want to see the photos.

You can't expect people to build their lives around you