Book: Hannibal. Page 1

From experience he knew that ruin the career of the woman much easier than harm in this respect to the man. If a woman gets promoted, what women get is actually not expected, very easy to say that she deserved it, lying on his back.

Since Hannibal Lecter received this partial answer to his prayer, thoughts about the Divine it never bothered, except for the firm conviction that his own predatory impulses pale before the predatory aspirations of the Lord God, whose irony is unsurpassed, but the capricious malice knows no measure.

Original infamy easiest to see on the faces of the crowd.

That can destroy any man - a worm of doubt, the desire to agree with the prosecutors to get them on.

... to fit the memory of the whip impossible. It should be polite to invite.

During our acquaintance he told me some things that were true. I think that is very easy to take understanding for the sympathy - after all, we all want so badly to hear it. The ability to distinguish the former from the latter, apparently, is one of the hallmarks of growing up. Very painful and unnatural to think that someone reads in your soul, without feeling to you liking. It is equally disgusting to see the understanding only the tools of a predator.

- So what are we having for dinner?
- Never ask, so as not to spoil the surprise, replied Dr. Lecter, bringing it to his lips index finger.

If you suddenly feel that your heart starts to tie the pain, remember that ovary that will soon bloom lush colors of relief.

If you hear words so true that they hurt you, remember the truth of these words is relative, transient and variable.

The food appeals to the senses of smell and taste - the most ancient of our senses, the centers of which are located in the depths of the brain. Perception of taste and smell preceded the emergence of a sense of pity, so pity have no place at my table. The game on the cortex of the brain hidden under the skull, is similar to the light which opens our eyes to the miracles depicted on the walls of the Cathedral and under its arches. These miracles might be more entertaining than a theatrical performance.

No one to stay where he wants.

In the traditional ritual of transferring the personal weapons of the fallen fighter survivor ally there is something mystical. And this mysticism that the value system of the past life continues to exist, defeating death itself.
People living in a time when their security is provided by others, understand it not.

In our memory there are gaps, similar to the pit in the basement of medieval castles. In bottle carved in rock caverns, the narrow bottleneck which is covered by a blank cover, the rot that is intended to oblivion. Those that, from time to time secretly getting out of there, not able to warm our souls. Sometimes, like the earthquake shock, the loss of instinct or accidental, igniting an explosive mixture spark these long ago buried the phantoms come out to hurt us and make the dangerous things...

We are not afraid to leave our children in the kindergarten in the care of strangers. But at the same time, offsetting the guilt for it will suffer a paranoid suspicion of all strangers. Thus we inadvertently cultivated the fear of our offspring.