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Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis
— Thomas Harris
Barney did not reply. He looked at Krendler as though the left and right hemispheres of Krendler's brain were two dogs stuck together.
— Thomas Harris
If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.
— Thomas Harris
I thank God for what happened," Verger said. "It was my salvation. Have you accepted Jesus, Miss Starling? Do you have faith?
— Thomas Harris
When you are writing a novel, you aren't making it up. The story is already there. You just have to find it.
— Thomas Harris
blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there.
— Thomas A. Harris
He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.
— Thomas Harris
When you show the odd flash of contextual intelligence, I forget your generation can't read, Clarice. Hannibal Lecter — Thomas Harris
What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of a crime thriller and a horror movie.
— Bryan Fuller
I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.
— Thomas Harris
Variously weighted with lies, guns, and groceries, the three of them were a small and solemn troop.
— Thomas Harris
The longing need to be noticed that is often miscalled ego.
— Thomas Harris
The damp floor of the Internet sprouted Lecter theories like toadstools and sightings of the doctor rivaled those of Elvis in number.
— Thomas Harris
Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?
— Thomas Harris
He was alone because he was Unique.
— Thomas Harris
You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
— Thomas Harris
Barney was nearly through with his workout, cooling down on a bike, when he realized he was not alone in the room.
— Thomas Harris
On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.
— Thomas Harris
But when Krendler's volume became intrusive, Dr. Lecter retrieved his crossbow from a corner.
— Thomas Harris
It was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.
— Thomas Harris
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
— Thomas Harris
Every person is worth your time, Hannibal. If at first appearance a person seems dull, then look harder, look into him.
— Thomas Harris
He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.
— Thomas Harris
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
— Thomas Harris
She was charming way a cub is charming, a small cub that will grow up to be like one of the big cats. One you can't play with later
— Thomas Harris
Glistened on the rope, almost level now. Das
— Thomas Harris
Ready when you are Sergeant Pempbry.
— Thomas Harris
The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.
— Thomas Harris
Funerals often make us want sex - it's one in the eye for death.
— Thomas Harris
Gratitude's got a short half-life, Clarice.
— Thomas Harris
Sometimes Crawford's tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.
— Thomas Harris
I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.
— Thomas Harris
You would think such a day would tremble to begin ...
— Thomas Harris
Nothing made me happen. I happened.
— Thomas Harris
The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.
— Thomas Harris
Silence can mock.
— Thomas Harris
Flog no one else with meat.
— Thomas Harris
A week later he was working for the Tattler.
— Thomas Harris
Before his Becoming, he would not have dared any of this. Now he realized he could do anything. Anything. Anything.
— Thomas Harris
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
— Thomas Harris
I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.
— Thomas Harris
Who are you anyway?" Krendler said. "You're not Starling. You've got the spot on your face, but you're not Starling.
— Thomas Harris
... 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
Starling looked at Crawford steadily, but she was too still. "Hannibal the Cannibal," she said.
— Thomas Harris
Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling.
— Thomas Harris
It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
— Thomas Harris
There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. — Thomas Harris
There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
— Thomas Harris
The washing machine's rhythm was like a giant heartbeat, and the rush of its waters was what the unborn hear- our last memory of peace.
— Thomas Harris
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
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
— Thomas Harris
The world will not be this way within the reach of my arm.
— Thomas Harris
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?
— Thomas Harris
Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
— Thomas Harris
Spoken like a Protestant.
— Thomas Harris
I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
— Thomas Harris
Sanity and apparent rationality are not the same, comrade.
— Thomas Harris
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry ... and he's a mass murderer.
— Thomas Harris
Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.
— Thomas Harris
You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you?
— Thomas Harris
The enemy inside Graham agreed with any accusation.
— Thomas Harris
Killing somebody, even if you have to do it, it feels that bad?''Willy, it's one of the ugliest things in the world. — Thomas Harris
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
— Thomas Harris
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
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
— Thomas Harris
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.
— Thomas Harris
I say what I mean. Would you like it better if I said 'I'm glad you find me so.' That would be a little fancier, and equally true.
— Thomas Harris
We can only learn so much and live.
— Thomas Harris
I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
— Thomas Harris
You didn't draw a freak. You drew a man with a freak on his back. Nothing wrong with you, kid.
— Thomas Harris
It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
— Thomas Harris
Because it's his bad luck to be the best.
— Thomas Harris
Curious how things can work on you even when you recognize them.
— Thomas Harris
Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.
— Thomas Harris
When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
— Thomas Harris
Dr. Lecter took off Krendler's runner's headband as you would remove the rubber band from a tin of caviar.
— Thomas Harris
Death and danger do not have to come with trappings.
— Thomas Harris
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
— Thomas Harris
if she looked deeply where the dark sucks in the sparks, she might see something useful. She thought she might see glee. Thank
— Thomas Harris
Which do you think, Commendatore? Bowels in or out?
— Thomas Harris