“He only tied it”

“He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only person she really wanted to talk to.”

“I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.”

“She was partial to the tie. Not too long ago he did unspeakable things to her with that tie.”

“Or how he was once found on the well regarded Rabbi's front lawn, bound in white string, and said he tied one around his finger to remember something terribly important, and fearing he would forget the index finger, he tied a string around his pinky, and then one from waist to neck, and fearing he would forget this one, he tied a string from ear to tooth to scrotum heel, and used his body to remember his body, but in the end could only remember the string. Is this someone to trust for a story?”

“You think my blood is the only tie between us?"[...] "This is our true tie. You're meant for me, and I will have you.”