260 Quotes by 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.

… 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.

He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.

Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.

Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.

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

Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter? Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?

He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.

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