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

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

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

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

Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -

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

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

He follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement.

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

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

... 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.

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

Nothing made me happen. I happened.

He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.

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

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

He was alone because he was Unique.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

Don't think you can persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.

A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling.

It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

In the 1980's, the Golden Age of Terrorism, procedures ...

Hello Clarice...

They tried sodium amytal on him three years ago trying to find out where he buried a Princeton student," Graham said. "He gave them a recipe for dip.

WHEN STARLING was a child she moved from a clapboard house that groaned in the wind to the solid redbrick of the Lutheran Orphanage.

Glistened on the rope, almost level now. Das

A week later he was working for the Tattler.

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

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

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

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

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

You would think such a day would tremble to begin ...

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

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

Silence can mock.

Flog no one else with meat.

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

Which do you think, Commendatore? Bowels in or out?

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Spoken like a Protestant.

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

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

Sanity and apparent rationality are not the same, comrade.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The enemy inside Graham agreed with any accusation.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

We can only learn so much and live.

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

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Death and danger do not have to come with trappings.