260 Quotes by Thomas Harris

Barney was nearly through with his workout, cooling down on a bike, when he realized he was not alone in the room.

Ralph died,” Dolarhyde said. “I don’t think he liked it very much.

Molly was the same height as Graham, five feet ten inches. A level kiss in public carries a pleasant jolt, possibly because level kisses usually are exchanged in bed.

Silence can mock.

Good nutrition has given you some length of bone, but you’re not more than one generation out of the mines Officer Starling.

Crawford, ever wary of desire, knew how badly he wanted to be wise. He knew that a middle-aged man can be so desperate for wisdom he may try to make some up, and how deadly that can be to a youngster who believes him. So he spoke carefully, and only of things he knew.

Far beneath the rusty Baltimore dawn, stirrings in the maximum security ward. Down where it is never dark the tormented sense beginning day as oysters in a barrel open to their lost tide. God’s creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again and the ravers cleared their throats.

The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to credit your own opinion.

I inked up Lombard and all his Merry Men, major case prints whether they said they had touched her or not. They’re scrubbing their hands and bitching now.