Author of quotes: Thomas Harris

Glory, this loan from any police officer, has a very short half-life. It is much better to sell it.

What can I say? That I'm not hysterical? This is what all hysterics say first of all.

You are capable of leading people to any hell, and they will still love you. This is a special gift ...

It's very hard and extremely uncomfortable to be aware that someone sees right through and fully understands you, but at the same time does not feel warm feelings for you at all. When it is clear to you that he uses this understanding as a weapon against you.

It seems to me that it is very easy to confuse understanding with empathy - we all need empathy so much! Perhaps the ability to distinguish between these two things is a sign of growing up.

- Now I want you, Clarissa, to hear how this stringed instrument sounds.
He waited for the moment when Krendler fell silent and fired a crossbow arrow, aiming over the table, through a screen of flowers.

Good desire in one hand, shit in the other, which one outweighs?

... The highest values continue to live in spite of individual death.

You can see the tea cup fall off the table and break into pieces. But you can never see those pieces come together again in a cup and jump back on the table.

It doesn't matter if you believe in God or not, but if you're a warrior, Arlington Cemetery will be a holy place for you all your life, and the tragedy is not that a person dies, the tragedy is when a person dies in vain.

... But the rules are the rules: if you understand and accept them, everything will be all right with you.

You know that feeling - such a leaden, such a heavy gray feeling - it engulfs all of you when you're afraid of something?

Belief in sophisticated technology is the religion of all dangerous professions.

“Fly yourself,” he said to the bird. - Stop grieving. And then you wait - the cat will devour you.