The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

Wear me like a locket around your throat, I'll weigh you down, I'll watch you choke.

Here's an alternative: maybe adults could be actual adults for a minute. Instead of teaching children non-existent safe ways to strangle themselves and others, they could teach them not to do it, just as we teach them not to play with matches. Despite being frequently mentioned alongside "light spanking" and similar, choking causes brain damage and kills. It’s not like pulling someone's hair; it's like playing Russian roulette. And, of course, it is overwhelmingly women who are being strangled: the same study that found 58 per cent of female students had been choked said only 26 per cent of male ones had.

Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.

the poisonous world flows into my mouth like water into that of a drowning man

Control your tongue, for from it flow the greatest evils of human life.

If the Government gets hold of you they'll flog you to death; if the Buddhists get hold of you they'll starve you to death.

You have always thought if you opened your mouth in open water you would drown, but if you didn't open your mouth you would suffocate. So here you are, drowning.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

I shall seize fate by the throat.

And yet I am afraid, afraid of what my words will do to me, to my refuge, yet again.... If I could speak and yet say nothing, really nothing? Then I might escape being gnawed to death.

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.

What comes out of your mouth comes into your life.

I want to seize fate by the throat.