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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.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“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 Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

“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.”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

“You would think such a day would tremble to begin…”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

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

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

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

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

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

Thomas Harris Hannibal Rising

Source: Hannibal Rising

“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

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

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

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

Thomas Harris Hannibal Rising

Source: Hannibal Rising

“I am the dragon, and you call me insane.”

Thomas Harris Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

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

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

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

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“… 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 Hannibal Rising

Source: Hannibal Rising

“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 The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“But the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

“Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes." Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you." "Do you promise?""Yes.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs