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"You keep out of my bed, said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence."
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"I'm putting a temporary hold on the 'stay away from me' thing,' she said. "just for a minute while I yell at you, and then we're definitely going right back to it."
"Don't you ever let another put their hands on something that's already yours, because you might end up breaking your own heart."
"Sorry, one night stands don't stack up as credentials for tending bar."
"Your body is a temple, not a daily dumping ground for another person's pain, anger, betrayal, judgment, hypocrisy, denial, games, jealousy or blame. When you are being psychologically, spiritually or emotionally abused by a person, and they don't care how it hurts you, then it is time to leave what is polluting your relationship with God."
"I needed to begin respecting my own body's boundaries. I had to draw clear lines. Ones that were sound in my mind and therefore impermeable, and would always, no matter where I walked, protect me. Moving forward, I wanted rules."
"Boundary violations are deeply experienced."
"If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time."
"It is very possible to acknowledge another person's concerns without entering into their vibration."
"The truth is, we tend to train people how we want to be treated. If others know you have wishy-washy boundaries then they are free to walk all over you; the results you become a doormat. We have actually trained others to do this when we will allow people to wipe their muddy feet on us. After all, we are doormats."
"We violated each other's boundaries with verbal missiles of anger disguised in the pretense of 'just kidding."
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"Well, we all got to make a livin'.""Yeah," Tom said. "On'y I wisht they was some way to make her 'thout takin' her away from somebody else."
"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."
"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."
"I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature."
"Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught."
"In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground."
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