We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.
Thomas HarrisThe lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you'll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it's the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever.
Thomas HarrisSilence can mock.
Thomas HarrisNothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.
Thomas HarrisProblem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas HarrisI'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.
Thomas HarrisWe live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measures are the curse of it. Any rational society would either kill me or give me my books.
Thomas HarrisTags: hannibal-lecter
Страх быть примитивной – вот ваше единственное богатство.
Thomas HarrisЗло порождается страстью.Hannibal Lecter
Thomas HarrisWe routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.
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