260 Quotes by Thomas Harris

Because it’s his bad luck to be the best.

She didn’t give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.

He told me once that, whenever it was ‘feasible,’ he preferred to eat the rude. ‘Free-range rude,’ he called them.

The world will not be this way within the reach of my arm.

In the gathering gloom only his white Nike headband and his white Nike shoes and the white stripe down the side of his dark Nike running suit were visible, as though there were no man at all among the trademarks.

I’ll confess it is pleasant to look at you asleep. You’re quite beautiful, Clarice.

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few – the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.

We assign a moment to decision, to dignify the process as a timely result of rational and conscious thought. But decisions are made of kneaded feelings; they are more often a lump than a sum.