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Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis — Thomas Harris

Barney did not reply. He looked at Krendler as though the left and right hemispheres of Krendler's brain were two dogs stuck together. — Thomas Harris

If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time. — Thomas Harris

I thank God for what happened," Verger said. "It was my salvation. Have you accepted Jesus, Miss Starling? Do you have faith? — Thomas Harris

When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. — Thomas A. Harris

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart. — Thomas Harris

It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told. — Thomas Harris

When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read, Clarice.
Hannibal Lecter — Thomas Harris

What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie. — Bryan Fuller

I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it. — Thomas Harris

Variously weighted with lies, guns, and groceries, the three of them were a small and solemn troop. — Thomas Harris

The longing need to be noticed that is often miscalled ego. — Thomas Harris

The damp floor of the Internet sprouted Lecter theories like toadstools and sightings of the doctor rivaled those of Elvis in number. — Thomas Harris

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it? — Thomas Harris

He was alone because he was Unique. — Thomas Harris

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home. — Thomas Harris

Barney was nearly through with his workout, cooling down on a bike, when he realized he was not alone in the room. — Thomas Harris

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife. — Thomas Harris

But when Krendler's volume became intrusive, Dr. Lecter retrieved his crossbow from a corner. — Thomas Harris

It was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring. — Thomas Harris

He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. — Thomas Harris

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help. — Thomas Harris

Every person is worth your time, Hannibal. If at first appearance a person seems dull, then look harder, look into him. — Thomas Harris

He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. — Thomas Harris

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. — Thomas Harris

Baby needs a new pair of shoes,' he said. 'My baby doesn't need any shoes. — Thomas Harris

She was charming way a cub is charming, a small cub that will grow up to be like one of the big cats. One you can't play with later — Thomas Harris

Glistened on the rope, almost level now. Das — Thomas Harris

Ready when you are Sergeant Pempbry. — Thomas Harris

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you. — Thomas Harris

Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it. — Thomas Harris

Funerals often make us want sex - it's one in the eye for death. — Thomas Harris

Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice. — Thomas Harris

How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home. — Thomas Harris

Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll. — Thomas Harris

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell. — Thomas Harris

You would think such a day would tremble to begin ... — Thomas Harris

Nothing made me happen. I happened. — Thomas Harris

The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion. — Thomas Harris

Silence can mock. — Thomas Harris

Flog no one else with meat. — Thomas Harris

A week later he was working for the Tattler. — Thomas Harris

Before his Becoming, he would not have dared any of this. Now he realized he could do anything. Anything. Anything. — Thomas Harris

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives. — Thomas Harris

I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head. — Thomas Harris

Who are you anyway?" Krendler said. "You're not Starling. You've got the spot on your face, but you're not Starling. — Thomas Harris

... 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. — Thomas Harris

Starling looked at Crawford steadily, but she was too still. "Hannibal the Cannibal," she said. — Thomas Harris

Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling. — Thomas Harris

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. — Thomas Harris

There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named
the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. — Thomas Harris

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us. — Thomas Harris

The washing machine's rhythm was like a giant heartbeat, and the rush of its waters was what the unborn hear- our last memory of peace. — Thomas Harris

Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia. — Thomas Harris

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti — Thomas Harris

I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife - Hannibal Lecter — Thomas Harris

The world will not be this way within the reach of my arm. — Thomas Harris

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? — Thomas Harris

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears. — Thomas Harris

Spoken like a Protestant. — Thomas Harris

I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you. — Thomas Harris

Was that job offer you worked into the blessing? I never saw such tact. — Thomas Harris

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again. — Thomas Harris

Sanity and apparent rationality are not the same, comrade. — Thomas Harris

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry ... and he's a mass murderer. — Thomas Harris

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me. — Thomas Harris

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night. — Thomas Harris

You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you? — Thomas Harris

Fear comes from the imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price for imagination — Thomas Harris

HOW DO you behave when you know the conventional honors are dross? — Thomas Harris

The enemy inside Graham agreed with any accusation. — Thomas Harris

Killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?'
'Willy, it's one of the ugliest things in the world. — Thomas Harris

He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup. — Thomas Harris

I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. — Thomas Harris

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it. — Thomas Harris

When the fox hears a rabbit scream, he comes running, but not to help. — Thomas Harris

Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm. — Thomas Harris

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. — Thomas Harris

If he really Loved Grandmother, he should be the thing to be afraid of in the dark. — Thomas Harris

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me. — Thomas Harris

I say what I mean. Would you like it better if I said 'I'm glad you find me so.' That would be a little fancier, and equally true. — Thomas Harris

We can only learn so much and live. — Thomas Harris

I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice. — Thomas Harris

I am the dragon, and you call me insane. — Thomas Harris

This was a holiday and killing Grentz was preferable to skiing. The — Thomas Harris

You didn't draw a freak. You drew a man with a freak on his back. Nothing wrong with you, kid. — Thomas Harris

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw. — Thomas Harris

Because it's his bad luck to be the best. — Thomas Harris

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me. — Thomas Harris

He was a person who agreed with everything his victim said before he killed him. — Thomas Harris

Curious how things can work on you even when you recognize them. — Thomas Harris

Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences. — Thomas Harris

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can. — Thomas Harris

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time. — Thomas Harris

Dr. Lecter took off Krendler's runner's headband as you would remove the rubber band from a tin of caviar. — Thomas Harris

Death and danger do not have to come with trappings. — Thomas Harris

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches. — Thomas Harris

if she looked deeply where the dark sucks in the sparks, she might see something useful. She thought she might see glee. Thank — Thomas Harris

Which do you think, Commendatore? Bowels in or out? — Thomas Harris