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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Cry Crying Cycle Darkness Doom Doomed God God S Creation Hannibal Hell Horror Humanity Insanity Mental Illness Murder Never Ending Prison Psychopath Punishment Serial Killer Serial Killers Sleep The Silence Of The Lambs

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Cats Death Hannibal

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, Is this all?

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris End Faith Hard Justice People

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris On Writing Writing

I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Dignity Fear Hannibal Lecter Indignity

He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Hannibal Heart Heartless Heartlessness Horror Human Nature Monster Murder Psychopath Psychopaths Serial Killer Soul The Silence Of The Lambs

Can 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

Thomas Harris Hannibal Horror Mental Illness Psychiatry Psychology Schizophrenia Science The Silence Of The Lambs

In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Attraction Blind Dependency Enemy Friends

...the man to love rarely coincides with the hour of loving.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Love Men

When I couldn't speak I was not drawn into silence, silence captured me.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Mystery Poetic Words

It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness. Or perhaps, Starling thought, it excited him to see her marked in this particular way. She couldn't tell. The sparks in his eyes flew into his darkness like fireflies down a cave.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Cave Darkness Fireflies Marked Murders Purged

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Dreams Flashback Hallucinations Hannibal Horror Memories Mental Illness The Silence Of The Lambs Visions

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Abuse Silence Testimony

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Author Writing

Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Inspection Joker Smile Tongue

Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Astronomy Hannibal Stars The Silence Of The Lambs The Stars The Universe We Are Not Alone

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Hannibal Murder

He liked the Leedses. He was sorry that he had been to the morgue. He thought the madman who visited them might have liked them too. But the madman would like them better the way they were now.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Irony Murder

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Credit Pleased Someone Wanted Worry

He came back to the car, long legs lifting high in the snow, and there was snow in his hair and on his eyelashes and I remembered that I love him. It felt like something breaking with a little pain and spilling warm.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Love Winter

Writing novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.

~ Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris Writing Writing Craft
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