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Thomas Harris Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.”
— Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter)
Tagged: Horror, Smart People, Why things scare us
“Haven’t you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what’s in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?”
— Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter)
Tagged: Horror Stories, food, Dinner
“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.”
— Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter)
Tagged: Cannibal, Horror Stories
“Nothing made me happen. I happened.”
— Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter)
Tagged: Cause, effect, Life
“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.”
— Hannibal Lector, Thomas Harris, The Silence Of The Lambs
Tagged: The problem of evil, God, Religion, Horror, Why things scare us
“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”
— Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter)
Tagged: Vulnerable, Loneliness, Greed
“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. Starling was old enough to know that; she didn't let the room affect her.”
— Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter)
Tagged: Fear, Growing Up, Grief, Loss
“In the vaults of our hearts and brains, danger waits. All the chambers are not lovely, light and high. There are holes in the floor of the mind, like those in a medieval dungeon floor - the stinking oubliettes, named for forgetting, bottle-shaped cells in solid rock with the trapdoor in the top. Nothing escapes from them quietly to ease us. A quake, some betrayal by our safeguards, and sparks of memory fire the noxious gases - things trapped for years fly free, ready to explode in pain and drive us to dangerous behavior...”
— Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter)
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
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