Thomas Harris Quotes
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He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
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The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.
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Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
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I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
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Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
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It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
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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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Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
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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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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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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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And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
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I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.
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Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
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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 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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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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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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You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
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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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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
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In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior.
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When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.