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"What's inside is none of your business. Your business is getting it for him and getting it to him."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop."

"All I could think as he was speaking was that, if he touched me at all, all the miles I'd walked, the pain I'd felt, the beauty I'd drunken like milk, like good wine making me happy, the four million steps I'd taken, would all add up to nothing. They'd be stolen. They'd vanish like the teeth children lose when they get hit. Only after the blood was washed away would I see that they were gone."

"When she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion... it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed by the opposite sex - they were rightfully ours and we wanted them back."
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"If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home."

"It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks."

"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

"The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive."

"There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan."

"Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives."

"It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up."
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