
“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Curse of Chalion (2000), p. 333
“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
Source: And the Mountains Echoed
“A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it. It keeps him upright.”
Richard Ames; chapter 9, p. 108
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
Source: The Days of Abandonment
Letter to Archbishop J J Degenhardt, printed on rear cover of Eugen Drewermann, Worum es eigentlich geht. Protokoll einer Verurteilung (1992)
Gilmore indignantly dismissing criticism of “sharp corrupt practice” by Health Minister James Reilly from Mary Lou McDonald in the Dáil. Irish Independent http://www.independent.ie/national-news/how-many-bodies-are-buried-on-this-island-because-of-sinn-fein-gilmore-taunts-mcdonald-in-dail-spat-3332746.html
Why thus longing?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).