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Nothing made me happen. I happened.
We can only learn so much and live.
Ready when you are, Sergeant Pempbry.
I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
Because it's his bad luck to be the best.
You cant reduce me to a set of influences.
Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.
Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?
Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.
He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.
When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.
Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude.
I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
Shiloh isn’t haunted – men are haunted. Shiloh doesn’t care.
I have no interest in understanding sheep, only eating them.
There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
Funerals often make us want sex-it's one in the eye for death.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity.
It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
I'm giving serious thought into eating yor wife” - Hannibal Lecter
God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin.
Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
How seldom we recognize the sound when the bolt of our fate slides home.
Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.
He moves smoothly and slowly, carrying his concentration like a brimming cup.
I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.
I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
I'll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You're quite beautiful, Clarice.
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.
It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.