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.
Thomas HarrisBack at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm.
Thomas HarrisIt occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
Thomas Harris