Thomas Harris Quotes
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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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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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On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.
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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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We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
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Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
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When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.
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What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.
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The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.
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Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.
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I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
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What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.
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Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
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Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.
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There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
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I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
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You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
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The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.