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“What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.”
― Thomas Harris, 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, The Silence of the Lambs

“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, The Silence of the Lambs

“I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“They waited for the elevator. " Most people love butterflies and hate moth," he said. "But moths are more interesting - more engaging."
"They're destructive."
"Some are, a lot are, but they live in all kinds of ways. Just like we do." Silence for one floor.
"There's a moth, more than one in fact, that lives only on tears," he offered. "That's all they eat or drink."
"What kind of tears? Whose tears?"
"The tears of large land mammals, about our size.
The old definition of moth was, 'anything that gradually, silently eats, consumes, or wages any other thing.'
It was a verb for destruction too. . . .”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“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, The Silence of the Lambs

“... the washing machine's rhythm was like a giant heartbeat, and the rush of its waters was what the unborn hear- our last memory of peace.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“And then, the last words Raspail ever said: 'I wonder why my parents didn't kill me before I was old enough to fool them.'

The slender handle of the stiletto wiggled as Raspail's spiked heart tried to keep beating, and Dr Lecter said, 'Looks like a straw down a doodlebug hole, doesn't it?' but it was too late for Raspail to answer.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“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, The Silence of the Lambs

“She didn't give a damn about some of them, but she had grown to learn that inattention can be a stratagem to avoid pain, and that it is often misread as shallowness and indifference.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“I collect church collapses, recreationally. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? Marvelous! The facade fell on sixty-five grandmothers at a special mass. Was that evil? If so, who did it? If he's up there, he just loves it, Officer Starling. Typhoid and swans - it all comes from the same place.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Silence can mock.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“there’s no beginning or end to kitchen work. You eat breakfast, then it’s lunch, and then it’s dinner, and when it’s bright again it’s breakfast again.…”
― Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?”
― Joanne Harris, Blueeyedboy

“Chúng ta không thể làm việc theo kiểu lấp đầy khoảng thời gian trong ngày bằng số lượng công việc”
― Hòa Nhân, Tứ Thư Lãnh Đạo - Thuật Lãnh Đạo

“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Thầy nói cho các em biết, những điều thầy đang dạy các em mới chỉ là cánh cửa để bước vào thế giới toán học mà thôi. Nếu các em không biết cánh cửa đó ở đâu thì các em không thể đi vào bên trong được. Tất nhiên, em nào không thích thì không cần vào. Thầy kiểm tra các em là chỉ muốn xem các em có biết cổng vào ở chỗ nào hay không thôi.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Nhưng chỉ cần được ở gần những thứ cao sang như vậy thôi cũng hạnh phúc rồi. Việc mưu cầu danh tiếng sẽ phá hỏng sự kính trọng của người khác dành cho mình.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Con người, đôi khi, chỉ cần sống một cách đáng tự hào cũng là đang giúp ai đó rồi.”
― Keigo Higashino, The Devotion of Suspect X

“Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone. —MARGARET WHEATLEY”
― Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

“Success in any field, but especially in business is about working with people, not against them.”
― Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time