Broken Neck Sayings

#1. Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

George Meredith

#2. Jump into an open grave? What kind of idiot are you?" Butters replied. "I might as well put on a red shirt and volunteer for the away team. There's snow and ice and slippery mud down there. That's like asking for an ironically broken neck.

Jim Butcher

#3. It looked like a broken finger, a right hand turn sign, an Allen wrench, a drunk pencil, a worm with a broken neck, a damn garden hoe. It was not a penis.

Meghan Quinn

#4. How do you know he's dead? I realize that I may regret asking that question." "He's got a broken neck from falling off a roof and I reckon he fell off because he got a steel crossbow dart in his brain." "Ah. That sounds like dead, if you want my medical opinion.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Peyton Farquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. In England there is no mercy for the poor. You pay for everything, even a broken neck.
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Hilary Mantel

#7. But I'd take a slashed throat over a broken neck any day. At least that way I'd get to bleed all over his shoes. One final fuck-you before I died.

Rachel Vincent

#8. It was no secret that the most highly balanced minds sometimes, well, overbalanced.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Mr. Tope is again highly entertained, and, having fallen into respectful convulsions of laughter, subsides into a deferential murmur, importing that surely any gentleman would deem it a pleasure and an honour to have his neck broken, in return for such a compliment from such a source.

Charles Dickens

#10. For a while the world will appear more as it is and less as I make it, and I will have a new courage to face the remaining wreckage of the past.

Bill Clegg

#11. As a sad, grey dawn broke over the hillside he came upon a ruined cottage [named Broken-Heart Farm] which did not so much seem to have broken its heart, as its neck.

Susanna Clarke

#12. It was Dietrich Bonhoeffer who more than anybody else realized that nothing less than a return to the Christian faith could save Germany.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#13. The width of neck and shoulder suggested a rugby player, the broken nose confirmed it. Which shows just how wrong you can be as he never played the game in his life.

Spike Milligan

#14. If I had. If I had done those things, that would have been okay with you?" "Oh, fuck no. I'd have broken your neck and thrown you out the airlock," Amos said, clapping him on the shoulder. "Ah," Prax said, a gentle relief loosening in his chest. "Thank you." "Anytime." The

James S.A. Corey

#15. All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.

Bear Grylls

#16. Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.

L.M. Montgomery

#17. If I could have broken his neck I would have, just for the pleasure of the silence after the snap.

Kathe Koja

#18. It's always intimidating to meet an icon.

Jennifer O'Neill

#19. Andrew had nearly killed four men for assaulting Nicky and would have broken Allison's neck for hitting Aaron, but when it came to crimes against his own person Andrew couldn't care less. He held his life in less regard than he did anything else. Neil hated that with a ferocity that was nauseating.

Nora Sakavic

#20. skin the off-white of a dirty motel sheet.

Tom Piccirilli

#21. The heart is sometimes tainted with the songs of yesterday. Sing a new song today.

Steven Aitchison

#22. These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck.

Karen Quan

#23. If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.

Thomas Watson

#24. You should be more careful. You could have broken your neck or as big as you are landed on someone and killed them. (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. My dad was a Presbyterian minister. Yes, I am one of those dreaded P.K.s - Preacher's Kids. Be afraid.

Libba Bray

#26. Will you dance with me?" The charms on Sahara's bracelet clinked against one another as she lifted her arms to link them around his neck, her love for him proud and open.
Deep inside, even the part of him that was the void, merciless and dark and broken, knew happiness, knew joy.

Nalini Singh