260 Quotes by Thomas Harris

That was where Graham lost his faith in .38’s.

Death and danger do not have to come with trappings.

Pazzi and his appendage swinging and spinning before the rough wall of the floodlit palace, jerking in posthumous spasms but not choking, dead, his shadow thrown huge on the wall by the floodlights, swinging with his bowels swinging below him in a shorter, quicker arc, his manhood pointing out of his rent trousers in a death erection.

Starling stood in the doorway. It was here she came on her first FBI assignment, when she was still a trainee, still believed everything, still thought that if you could do the job, if you could cut it, you would be accepted, regardless of race, creed, color, national origin or whether or not you were a good old boy Of all this, there remained to her one article of faith. She believed that she could cut it. Here.

Live right behind your eyes. Listen to yourself.

Silence and no lambs screaming.

It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness.

Don’t try to impose any pattern or symmetry on this guy. Stay open and let him show you.

When surrounded by their peers, most men have two sets of reactions – the real ones and those designed for evaluation by their fellows.