When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
Because it's his bad luck to be the best.
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.
Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.
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?
God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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.
Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.
Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.
I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.
What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.
You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .
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.
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.
You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.
It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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.
The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.
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.
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