"I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck."
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"What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!"
"I got your head noddin' cuz your neck knows it's phat."
"Your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you."
"On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones."
"Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves."
"When you're on the open sea and you drop 10, 12 feet and your stomach goes up around your neck - that's when you have problems."
"if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away"
"You break your neck, and I’ll see it mended just so I can break it again."
"Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze."
"Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff."
"Now I am silent, hate Up to my neck, Thick, thick. I do not speak."
"My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking."
"Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help," snarled Ron, leaning back, trying to stop the plant from curling around his neck."
"Well, think back," said Harry. "Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck?"
"When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck."
"Ivy turned. 'He bit you on the neck?' she said, deadpan serious but for her eyes. 'Oh, then it's got to be love. She won't let me bite her neck."
"Then he leaned down, breath warm on my neck as he whispered his next words. "You've wondered if I felt differently about you since your abilities diminished. Let this serve as your answer."
"I’m in, Cat. I’d never leave you. Especially when you’ve got death breathing down your neck.” “Very funny,” I retorted, since Bones was inches from my throat"
"You'll drain me dry, but not my neck, and you'll beg me to stop before I'm finished." -Bones"