Bram Macgregor > Bram's Quotes

“It was never about money for us it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something to those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins. We show them that the human spirit is still alive”
― Character: Bodhi

“THE LECTER FAMILY survived in the woods for the terrible three and a half years of Hitler’s eastern campaign.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“Every person is worth your time, Hannibal. If at first appearance a person seems dull, then look harder, look into him.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal Rising

“Even though this was now routine, returning home to the sight of eight squad cars parked in our driveway still caused me to feel an instant and roiling vertigo; a few months ago I’d nearly swerved off the road and clipped a fire hydrant when I saw them all there. My immediate thought was always that my Internet search history had been discovered,”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa

“The very strangeness of the landscape made him feel safer, as if all the bad times were behind him, so far away that everything in the previous four years could be forgotten, forgotten so completely that it would be as if it had never happened at all. He was good at that. There was a place he could go to in his mind where he truly could forget. Not erase. Forget.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

“If, as many people believe today, Ted Bundy took lives, he also saved lives. I know he did, because I was there when he did it.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

“Once in a while. We talk on the phone. Every time I hear her voice, it all comes back.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

“After a year and a half, I had heard the same problems too many times. I had problems of my own.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

“I escaped by the skin of my teeth. When I think of his cold and calculating manner, I shudder.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

“It was almost as if it was some kind of perverse game of challenge on the part of the abductor. As if, each time, he would come a little further out of the shadows”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

“Something—she couldn’t even say what—had caused the hairs on the back of her neck to stand on end, something about that missing seat.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me

“Over this odd world, this half the world that’s dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“In the 1980s, the Golden Age of Terrorism,”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the café curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we’re frightened in the face of Doom.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Only Barney supervised the handling of Dr. Lecter, because Barney never forgot what he was dealing with. His two assistants watched taped hockey highlights on television. Dr. Lecter amused himself—he has extensive internal resources and can entertain himself for years at a time. His thoughts were no more bound by fear or kindness than Milton’s were by physics. He was free in his head.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Dr. Lecter could remember every word, and much more too. Pleasant thoughts to pass the time while they cleaned his cell.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Lecter’s monster ego. Chilton’s ambition. Senator Martin’s terror for her child. Catherine Martin’s life. Call it.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Dr. Lecter’s eyes focused on her. “That flag smells like cigars,” he said. “Did you nurse Catherine?” “Pardon me? Did I…” “Did you breast-feed her?” “Yes.” “Thirsty work, isn’t it…?”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“When her pupils darkened, Dr. Lecter took a single sip of her pain and found it exquisite. That was enough for today.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Love your suit,” he said as she went out the door.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Dr. Lecter toyed with his food while he wrote and drew and doodled on his pad with a felt-tipped pen. He flipped over the cassette in the tape player chained to the table leg and punched the play button. Glenn Gould playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations on the piano. The music, beautiful beyond plight and time, filled the bright cage and the room where the warders sat.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“In his years of detention, with his unending curiosity, Dr. Lecter had learned many of the secret prison crafts. In all the years after he savaged the nurse in the Baltimore asylum, there had been only two lapses in the security around him, both on Barney’s days off.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Pembry had managed to sit up and he was crying. Dr. Lecter looked down at him with his red smile. “I’m ready if you are, Officer Pembry,” he said.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“All posts reported quiet. None of the nut calls threatening Lecter had come to anything.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“God don’t let him be out. Nobody wearing vests, shit. Fucking Corrections screws.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“When it was convenient, he would move on. There was no reason to hurry.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Next, he dropped a note to Dr. Frederick Chilton in federal protective custody, suggesting that he would be paying Dr. Chilton a visit in the near future. After this visit, he wrote, it would make sense for the hospital to tattoo feeding instructions on Chilton’s forehead to save paperwork. Last, he poured himself a glass of the excellent Batard-Montrachet and addressed Clarice Starling:”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Well, Clarice, have the lambs stopped screaming? You owe me a piece of information, you know, and that’s what I’d like.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“won’t be surprised if the answer is yes and no. The lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you’ll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it’s the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever. I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it. Be sure you extend me the same courtesy.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“I won’t be surprised if the answer is yes and no. The lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you’ll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it’s the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever. I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it. Be sure you extend me the same courtesy.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs