260 Quotes by Thomas Harris

Sometimes Crawford’s tone reminded Starling of the know-it-all caterpillar in Lewis Caroll.

Typhoid and swans – it all comes from the same place.

And then he realized that he loved the eagle better than the sheep and that he always would and that, because he did, because it was in him to do it, he could never be perfect in the sight of God.

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.

She thought for an instant of her late parents. She wondered if they would be ashamed of her now – just that question, not its pertinence, no qualifications – the way we always ask it.

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can’t stand it for long at a time.

This was a holiday and killing Grentz was preferable to skiing. The.

Pity Catherine Martin won’t ever see the sun again. The sun’s a mattress fire her God died in, Clarice.

He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. There was nothing he could do about it.