The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
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 HarrisI think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you.
Thomas HarrisSpaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s 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