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101 " It occurred to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw. "
― Thomas Harris , The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
102 " Silence and no lambs screaming. "
103 " Crawford began to underline. “If you assume when I send you on a job, Starling, you can make an ass out of u and me both. "
104 " She delivered the paper to the night duty officer and fell into her grateful bed, the voices of the day still whispering, softer than Mapp’s breathing across the room. On the swarming dark she saw the moth’s wise little face. Those glowing eyes had looked at Buffalo Bill. Out of the cosmic hangover the Smithsonian leaves came her last thought and a coda for her day: Over this odd world, this half of the world that’s dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears. "
105 " I’m not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell. We can dodge some right there. "
106 " She wondered if men actually regard that kind of manipulation as subtle. "
107 " —¿Qué me dice, Starling?—Digo que maldita sea, señor Crawford. ¿Qué dice usted? "
108 " 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. "
109 " Es curioso advertir con qué eficacia operan las cosas cuando uno las reconoce.Es curioso observar hasta qué punto es incómodo el regalo del mando. "
110 " in the absolute dark she could hear the tiny clicks her eyes made when she blinked. "
111 " Starling se preguntó si al pensar en las mujeres las consideraba «pieles», igual que algunos cretinos que suelen llamarlas «coños». "
112 " 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 ashtray, 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. "
113 " Good morning,” he said, as though he had answered the door. His cultured voice has a slight metallic rasp beneath it, possibly from disuse. Dr Lecter’s eyes are maroon and they reflect the light in pinpoints of red. Sometimes the points of light seem to fly like sparks to his center. His eyes held Starling whole. "
114 " Out of the cosmic hangover the Smithsonian leaves came her last thought and a coda for her day: Over this odd world, this half the world that’s dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears. "
115 " I woke up and heard the lambs screaming. I woke up in the dark and the lambs were screaming. "
116 " Over this odd world, this half the world that’s dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears. "
117 " Thương thay những kẻ om sòm Đi tìm ngọn lửa thiêu mòn thế gian Lại không hiểu được cho tròn Cơn sốt gầy mòn là ngọn lửa kia ? "
118 " He’s a cemetery mink. He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart. "
119 " Good-bye, Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming? "
120 " ¿Han dejado ya de llorar los corderos, Clarice? "