Thomas Harris Quotes

“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

“When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“No existe misericordia en la Máquina verde; nosotros la creamos, fabricándola en las partes que han superado nuestro elemental cerebro de reptil. No existe el crimen, nosotros lo hemos creado y solo a nosotros nos incumbe.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“Snow.
It has a way of hiding things.
Everything seems pure, covered in a layer of white.
Until you dig underneath and find the gray, ugly truth.”
― Birgitte Märgen, The Puritan

“Es muy fácil confundir la comprensión con la simpatía. Deseamos la simpatía con tanta fuerza...
Puede que aprender a distinguirla forme parte del proceso de madurar. Es duro y desagradable darse cuenta de que alguien puede comprenderte sin tener que gustarle.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“Es difícil tener algo, ¿verdad? Raro conseguirlo, difícil conservarlo.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon

“La falta de atención es muchas veces una estratagema para esquivar el sufrimiento y, a menudo, se interpreta equivocadamente como superficialidad e indiferencia.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“Es muy fácil confundir la comprensión con la
simpatía, por la desesperada necesidad de simpatía que todos sentimos.
Puede que
aprender a distinguirlas forme parte del proceso de madurar.
Es duro y
desagradable darse cuenta de que alguien puede comprenderte sin que ni siquiera le
gustes.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“There is much tradition and mystique in the bequest of personal weapons to a surviving comrade in arms. It has to do with a continuation of values past individual mortality. People living in a time made safe for them by others may find this difficult to understand.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“He would like to meet Lecter, talk and share with him, rejoice with him in their shared vision, be recog­ nized by him as John the Baptist recognized the One who came after, sit on him as the Dragon sat on 666 in Blake’s Revelation series, and film his death as, dying, he melded with the strength of the Dragon.”
― Thomas Harris, Red Dragon