Thomas Harris: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“… 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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”