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61 " When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can. "
― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
62 " Suicide was Bloom's mortal enemy. "
63 " Z opuszczonymi rękami stał w oknie, patrząc w puste niebo. Nie czekał na wschód słońca. Wschód to był tylko kierunek, na który wychodziło okno. "
― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
64 " La razón por la que pudo atraparme es porque ambos somos iguales "
65 " Chilton nodded. "To begin with, Dr. Lecter will stay in his room. That is absolutelythe only place where he is not put in restraints. One wall of his room is a doublebarrier which opens on the hall. I'll have a chair put there, and screens if you like."I must ask you not to pass him any objects whatever, other than paper free of clipsor staples. No ring binders, pencils, or pens. He has his own felt-tipped pens.""I might have to show him some material that could stimulate him," Graham said."You can show him what you like as long as it's on soft paper. Pass him documentsthrough the sliding food tray. Don't hand anything through the barrier and do notaccept anything he might extend through the barrier "
66 " Jack Crawford heard the rhythm and syntax of his own speech in Graham’s voice. He had heard Graham do that before, with other people. Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person’s speech patterns. At first, Crawford had thought he was doing it deliberately, that it was a gimmick to get the back-and-forth rhythm going.Later Crawford realized that Graham did it involuntarily, that sometimes he tried to stop and couldn’t. "
― Thomas Harris
67 " I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me. "
68 " It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.'Because he got hurt?'No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination. "
69 " The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver.Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you. "
― Thomas Harris , Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3)
70 " Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter? Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him? "
71 " Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences. "
72 " Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it. "
73 " There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named—the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt. "
74 " I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor. "
75 " Hello Clarice... "
76 " You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . . "
77 " One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind. "
78 " I am the dragon, and you call me insane. "
79 " I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you. "
― Thomas Harris , Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)
80 " Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion. "