260 Quotes by Thomas Harris

Barney did not reply. He looked at Krendler as though the left and right hemispheres of Krendler’s brain were two dogs stuck together.

She wondered if men actually regard that kind of manipulation as subtle.

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

A week later he was working for the Tattler.

He did it because he liked it. Still does. Dr. Lecter is not crazy, in any common way we think of being crazy. He did some hideous things because he enjoyed them. But he can function perfectly when he wants to.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I’m giving serious thought to eating your wife.

Starling discovered that she had traded feeling frightened for feeling cheap. Of the two, she preferred feeling frightened.

WHEN STARLING was a child she moved from a clapboard house that groaned in the wind to the solid redbrick of the Lutheran Orphanage.

His empty hands hanging palms forward at his sides, he stood at the window looking to the empty east. He did not look for dawn; east was only the way the window faced.