When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsNothing made me happen. I happened.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsBeing smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsNothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsI'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsProblem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsBut the face on the pillow, rosy in the firelight, is certainly that of Clarice Starling, and she sleeps deeply, sweetly, in the silence of the lambs.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsGod's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsI would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsHe lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsShe didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsI expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the LambsCan you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.
Thomas Harris in The Silence of the Lambs