Quotes About Boundaries

It takes an incredibly strong person to walk away from someone they love," Jenks said, holding up two fingers as if making a list. "Especially knowing they will do something asinine, like shopping when their blood count is so low they ought to be in the hospital. You should give her credit for respecting you like that.

Rynn Cormel had run the world during the Turn, his living charisma somehow crossing the boundaries of death to give his undead existence an uncanny mimicry of life. Every move was a careful study of causality. It was highly unusual for so young an undead vampire to be so good at mimicking having a soul. I figured it was because he was a politician and had had practice way before he died.

The dangerous reality of the Hollows remains carefully hidden. We know if we color too far out of humanity's self-imposed lines, old fears will resurface and they will strike out at us.

He was not her therapist now but her lover, and if you couldn't make your lover angry, then what kind of lover was he? She saw the awful bind that one was put in when one's lover was also one's therapist-- how their objective eye and soothing voice could become the distancing device of a professional manner. A man doing his job--it was intolerable to be judged by such an eye, as if he were somehow above it all, and did not have any problems himself, any emotions that he could not control.

Words blur at the borders, fuzz into other words, not just in big clouds of connotation around the edges of the word, but right there in the heart of denotation itself.

Friends don't bite friends. At least not without lots of Vodka, a Mexican waiter named Santiago and mutual consent.

Face it, Nat, this is one tiger who will never be jumping through your flaming hoop--

Hey! When he dug into it, rifling through her things, she snapped, Go Yoda someone else's supplies, asshole.

With your actions, you train others how to treat you.

I didn't need to be kissing a man who'd ruthlessly cut me out of his life. Didn't need to reward his shitty treatment of me. Jess had an m.o. for dealing with badly behaving males—she called it ABC: Always Be Crazier.

I have no more fucks to give. Okay, Vrekener?—

There comes a time, when you have to realize that you're not responsible for the whole world.

It was not so much that he was shut out, but that she was trapped inside.

The boundary of your state is not the boundary of your moral concern.

I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

Don't over analyze your relationships.

I feel honor-bound to have a private relationship with my children. And that's not a judgment about anybody else and what they choose. And that's the beauty of living in a democracy, right?

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

To talk about a relationship trivializes something that's nobody's business.

Two creative spirits in a relationship, I don't think that's the best way to go.

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

family relationships have made me so ill!