Thomas Harris: Trending quotes (page 3)

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

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

“How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.”

“Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.”

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

“Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted.
Shiloh doesn’t care.”

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

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

“Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.”

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

“Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.”

“In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?”

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

“He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.”

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

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

“Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be… But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.”

“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.”

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