What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,โ Dr. Bloom said. โHe can assume your point of view, or mine โ and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. Itโs an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perceptionโs a tool thatโs pointed on both ends.
Thomas HarrisDid you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.
Thomas HarrisSpaces devoted to Hannibal Lecterโs earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.
Thomas Harris