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Thomas Harris Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Barney did not reply. He looked at Krendler as though the left and right hemispheres of Krendler's brain were two dogs stuck together.
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 follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement.
When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read, Clarice.
Hannibal Lecter
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.
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named
the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling.
I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.
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
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.
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.
Killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?'
'Willy, it's one of the ugliest things in the world.
'Willy, it's one of the ugliest things in the world.
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.
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.
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.
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.