Quotes About Intrusion

Hey, anytime you want someone to butt in when he's not invited, I'm the guy for you..... And you should also know that i'm the guy for you if you decide you might like to try another sip of blood. Keep that in mind, too.

Life, said Wesson, who had had time for reflection, is a house which we all burgle. We enter it uninvited, take all that we can lay hands on, and go out again.

I say, you know', said Dudley, awkwardly, 'if I'm in the way, you know, just speak the word and I'll race off to the local pub. I mean to say, don't want to butt in, I mean.' 'Not at all, Mr--' 'Finch.' 'Not at all, Mr. Finch. I am only too delighted', said Lady Wickham, looking at him as if he were a particularly loathsome slug which had interrupted some beautiful reverie of hers in the rose-garden, 'that you were able to come.

They strode with purpose, armed with resolution, whereas everything I did seemed insubstantial and forced. I longed for engagement, intrusion, and a little more Mardi Gras than Lent in my life.

Was life, were human relations like this always, Therese wondered. Never solid ground underfoot. Always like gravel, a little yielding, noisy so the whole world could hear, so one always listened, too, for the loud, harsh step of the intruder's foot.

She was doing it again. She was crawling down his collar and the back of his shirt and getting under his skin. Nobody else ever got close enough to disturb his equilibrium. Only Lily had the unmitigated gall to assume they were equals. I'm

Shalom is shattered by sin, by the intrusion of a lie, a distortion of the truth that mars the pleasure of being naked, transparent, trusting and true. ... shattering occurs when our dignity os assaulted and death enters to divide and destroy.

The memory of it comes to me like a blow to the face, the way all true memories do, unasked for, unwelcome, a full-body possession.

At that moment I would have welcomed spider-rats nibbling on my toes about as much as the idea of chatting with a missionary priest.

But from these three cats I afterwards came to be so pestered with cats that I was forced to kill them like vermin or wild beasts, and to drive them from my house as much as possible.

the dark as it hit late afternoon thick like someone who stops by your place and just won't leave.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone.

As individuals steadily lose degrees of privacy, so too do corporations and states.

Pipes filled with brine that spied on the inhabitants of buildings watching, listening, hunting. You might obscure the attention of the Londonmancers, with the complicity of a treacherous borough, with strikebreaking hexes strong enough: but nothing could stay hidden from an inquisitive sea.

The branches dropped shaggy creepers that, when they reached the earth, hardened into roots and pried apart paving.

But in an unfamiliar house, when you're uncertain where you're going, every movement is prolonged by the sense that you're going to try the wrong door or get in someone's way and bother someone.

beat down the door, and then amid the shrieks and prayers of the affrighted nuns

Prince Hippolyte, under pretense of helping, was in everyone's way.

To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle's shoulder.

Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number.

Occasionally, I'll be on the Internet and see something about me and give in to the urge to click on it. It's hard not to. Usually, I wish I didn't.

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house.