Florance Z

“There are no right or wrong rules, but which are your rules? It’s your house, they are your boundaries, and you decide.”
― Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

“Intentional or not, I was being taught that my discomfort was unimportant and that the potential of upsetting another outweighed my own feelings.”
― Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why you need boundaries and how to set them

“She can see how this self-possessed child might appear to other children. But she doesn't believe that it's the way it must be; she doesn't believe that Poppy couldn't learn to enjoy time with her peers, to stop rolling her eyes at them and alienating them. She doesn't know, thinks Laurel, she doesn't know that this isn't how you grow up.”
― Lisa Jewell

“The right person respects your boundaries and will never make you feel like they are too much.”
― Michelle Elman, The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries and How to Set Them