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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2) QUOTES

The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2) QUOTES

1 " God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

2 " I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

3 " He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

4 " Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

5 " It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness. Or perhaps, Starling thought, it excited him to see her marked in this particular way. She couldn't tell. The sparks in his eyes flew into his darkness like fireflies down a cave. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

6 " Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

7 " Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

8 " When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

9 " Nothing made me happen. I happened. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

10 " I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

11 " Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it? "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

12 " 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. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

13 " I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

14 " Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

15 " Silence can mock. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

16 " I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

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

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

18 " What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day. "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

19 " En este extraño mundo, esta mitad del mundo que ahora está a oscuras, tengo que perseguir a un ser que se alimenta de lágrimas "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)

20 " They waited for the elevator. " Most people love butterflies and hate moth," he said. "But moths are more interesting - more engaging."
"They're destructive."
"Some are, a lot are, but they live in all kinds of ways. Just like we do." Silence for one floor.
"There's a moth, more than one in fact, that lives only on tears," he offered. "That's all they eat or drink."
"What kind of tears? Whose tears?"
"The tears of large land mammals, about our size.
The old definition of moth was, 'anything that gradually, silently eats, consumes, or wages any other thing.'
It was a verb for destruction too. . . . "

― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)