“I am the beast at the end of the rope.”
“Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”
“He's following me... He needs to have a secret but he can´t help telling the heat is going out of me. The heart is going out of me, and though she cannot remember she cannot forget. Clutching a fistful of sand. What ties me to you is guilt. I crossed two rivers and wept by one I am the beast at the end of the rope Happy and free.”
“Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.”
“A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends.”
“The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.”