No. You know – having to look. It’s always bad, but you get so you can function anyway, as long as they’re dead. The hospital, interviews, that’s worse. You have to shake it off and keep on thinking. I don’t believe I could do it now. I could make myself look, but I’d shut down the thinking.

— Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Quotes

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

— Thomas Harris

Because it’s his bad luck to be the best.

— Thomas Harris

It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.

— Thomas Harris

Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.

— Thomas Harris

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

— Thomas Harris

Now that ceaseless exposure has calloused us to the lewd and the vulgar, it is instructive to see what still seems wicked to us. What still slaps the clammy flab of our submissive consciousness hard enough to get our attention?

— Thomas Harris

Monsters know when they are recognized, just as bores do.

— Thomas Harris

Experience decorates us.

— Thomas Harris

Faith in technique is the religion of the dangerous trades. To go up against an armed felon in a gunfight or to fight him in the dirt you have to believe perfect technique, hard training, will guarantee that you are invincible. This is not true, partricularly in firefights. You can stack the odds in your favor, but if you get into enough gunfights, you will be killed in one.

— Thomas Harris

You don’t even dislike him all the time, hard as that is to believe. Then, if you’re lucky, out of the stuff you know, part of it plucks at you, tries to get your attention. Always tell me when something plucks, Starling.

— Thomas Harris

Live right behind your eyes. Listen to yourself.

— Thomas Harris

Starling, I have to retire in two years. If I find Jimmy Hoffa and the Tylenol killer I still have to hang it up. It’s not a consideration.

— Thomas Harris

Too many was too many, but way too many was just right.

— Thomas Harris

He had had enough of the wideeyed dead.

— Thomas Harris

Often in intense conversation Graham took on the other person’s speech patterns.

— Thomas Harris

They had been in a row, seated along the wall facing the bed. An audience. A dead audience.

— Thomas Harris

A long time ago John Brigham had asked her something and she said no. And then he asked her if they could be friends, and meant it, and she said yes, and meant it.

— Thomas Harris

Primum non nocere. First do no harm.

— Thomas Harris

Oh, Reba, I can’t stand to watch you burn.

— Thomas Harris

He was casting a big Rapala with three treble hooks which his grandfather had given him. He was fishing too fast, casting again and again, retrieving too fast, until he was red-faced and his tee-shirt stuck to him.

— Thomas Harris
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