When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for. Thomas Harris More Quotes by Thomas Harris More Quotes From Thomas Harris It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet. Thomas Harris slippery planets damn A census taker tried to quantify me once. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a big Amarone. Go back to school, little Starling. Thomas Harris bigs littles school He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much. Thomas Harris age wish life Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. Thomas Harris emotion humanity animal It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin. Thomas Harris shakes hard skins You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity. Thomas Harris appeals vanity intellectual Whenever feasible, one should always try to eat the rude. Thomas Harris rude should trying … It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know. Thomas Harris broken healing home But 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 lambs silence sleep He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness. Thomas Harris numbness numb loss The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room. Thomas Harris air noise rooms We can only learn so much and live. Thomas Harris The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval. Thomas Harris worms approval temptation 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 faust breathing half We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children. Thomas Harris day-care guilt children Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that is warm. Thomas Harris reading remember book 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 making-friends people enemy Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it. Thomas Harris savages hunting fierce Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place. Thomas Harris starlings typhoid swans Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe. Thomas Harris slugs ants sun
