Top 85 Quotes & Sayings by Thomas Harris - Page 2

We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

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.

And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "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?

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.

Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.

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

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

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.

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.

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

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

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

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

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

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

Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.

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

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

What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.

Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.

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.

He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.

I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.