99 Great Thomas Harris Quotes That Will Take You On A Suspense Ride
When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
Nothing made me happen. I happened.
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?
The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
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.
It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.
Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
We can only learn so much and live.
Silence can mock.
We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.
I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
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.
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.
I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter
Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.
Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
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.
The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.
If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.
He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
