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  1. Thomas Harris _ The Silence of the Lambs

    God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
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  2. Thomas Harris _ The Silence of the Lambs

    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.
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  3. Thomas Harris _ The Silence of the Lambs

    Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
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  4. Thomas Harris _ Hannibal

    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.
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  5. Thomas Harris _ The Silence of the Lambs

    He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.
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  6. Thomas Harris _ Red Dragon

    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.
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  7. Thomas Harris _ Hannibal

    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...
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  8. Thomas Harris _ Hannibal

    If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time.
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  9. Thomas Harris _ Hannibal

    The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
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  10. Thomas Harris _ Hannibal

    We can only learn so much and live.
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  11. Thomas Harris _ The Silence of the Lambs

    I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.
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  12. Thomas Harris _ Red Dragon

    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.
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