It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

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

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

What he has in addition is pure empathy and projection,” Dr. Bloom said. “He can assume your point of view, or mine – and maybe some other points of view that scare and sicken him. It’s an uncomfortable gift, Jack. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.