Quotes About Intrusion

It was undignified to be on show like this. That was the thing about hospitals, anyone could wander into your room and gawp at you when you were at your very lowest, your most unflattering.

The problem with meddling," said Charles under his breath, "is that for every problem you solve, you create two more.

The thought of him was a smoky cloud from hell that moved and crept in her head.

A knock came at the door. Everyone looked up. Elena's nostrils flared and she leaned over to whisper something to Clay. Fuck, he muttered. Keep talking, Jaime. It's only Cassandra. She can wait. Forever, if we're lucky. I heard that, Clayton, Cassandra said as she walked in. Who the hell forgot to lock the door? Clay said. You were the last one in, Elena murmured. Damn.

Gabriel discourages emotional attachments the way most of us discourage door-to-door salesmen. They're inconvenient, intrusive, and liable to end up saddling you with something you never wanted in the first place, at a cost far higher than you wish to pay.

You shouldn't be here," I said. "I'm still dreaming, aren't I?" "That depends. Am I better looking?

I was in the Tillsons' bathroom, still dressed, starting the shower, when I heard a faint click, and I wheeled to see Rafe coming in, holding a card he'd used to pop the lock. His free hand covered his eyes. "Excuse--" I began. "Oh, sorry. Didn't know you were in here," he said, his hand still over his eyes as he frantically motioned, apparently trying to stop me from stating the obvious--that he'd broken in and knew full well I was here.

What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

Yeah, hello and good-bye," Karras growled. "Who are you and what the fuck are you doing in my room?

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.

Comes at the last, and with a little pinBores through his castle wall, and farewell king!

Flat burglary as ever was committed.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

I'm thinking at the moment. Thinking. And to have my thought interrupted is like being strangled. Don't you know that barging in here when I'm with my numbers is as rude as interrupting someone in the bathroom?

Battering down doors, battering down people, kicking in doors, kicking in people, searching for her, searching for me.

In the early 1980s, Graham worked hard to turn the Repository into a respectable business, rather than a ludicrous one: Graham's wife didn't like keeping the sperm at the Escondido estate. Not only had the house been picketed, but a Japanese trespasser had once made a run at the sperm, only to be nipped by a family dog.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

La peor consecuencia de la vejez es que los demás invaden tu intimidad. Ya nadie respeta las manías, las costumbres, tu forma particular de hacer las cosas, desde la higiene a la organización del día. Alguien, con la intención de ayudar, se ocupa de ti. Pero ocuparse de ti es ocupar tu territorio íntimo. La independencia perdida de mi padre le transformó en un señor malhumorado. La incapacidad para valerse solo le enfrentó con los demás.

Cops do this every day, rifling closets and digging through your dildo drawer.

A teenager stood there. Right in the middle of my living room, a space that had been proudly teenager-free for years.

was desperate to see what would show up but this was her bedroom and I suppose she had a reasonable fear of two creepy males clicking through shots of her dressing and doing the things girls do alone in their bedrooms. Lighting farts or whatever.