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Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1) QUOTES

Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1) QUOTES

1 " You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

2 " You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

3 " In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

4 " You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

5 " Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving - "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

6 " He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

7 " It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

8 " He came back to the car, long legs lifting high in the snow, and there was snow in his hair and on his eyelashes and I remembered that I love him. It felt like something breaking with a little pain and spilling warm. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

9 " It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

10 " Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

11 " We 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 Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

12 " Sometimes at night I would leave the lights on in my little house and walk across the flat fields. When I looked back from a distance, the house looked like a boat at sea. And all around me the vast Delta night. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

13 " No existe misericordia en la Máquina verde; nosotros la creamos, fabricándola en las partes que han superado nuestro elemental cerebro de reptil. No existe el crimen, nosotros lo hemos creado y solo a nosotros nos incumbe. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

14 " You're his friend, Jack. Why can't you leave him alone? 'Because it's his bad luck to be the best. Because he doesn't think like other people. Somehow he never got in a rut. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

15 " In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all? "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

16 " Graham had a lot of trouble with taste. Often his thoughts were not tasty. There were no effective partitions in his mind. What he saw and learned touched everything else he knew. Some of the combinations were hard to live with. But he could not anticipate them, could not block and repress. His learned values of decency and propriety tagged along, shocked at his associations, appalled at his dreams; sorry that in the bone arena of his skull there were no forts for what he loved. His associations came at the speed of light. His value judgments were at the pace of a responsive reading. They could never keep up and direct his thinking. He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. There was nothing he could do about it. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

17 " What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

18 " Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

19 " When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)

20 " Suicide was Bloom's mortal enemy. "

― Thomas Harris , Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)