Thomas Harris Quotes
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Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
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It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
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And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?
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You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
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I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin.
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I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.
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It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
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I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.
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What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.
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In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
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It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
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Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
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… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
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In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?
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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.