“We don't begin to covet with imagined things. Coveting is a very literal sin–we begin to covet with tangibles, we begin with what we see every day.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
“How do you behave when you know the conventional honors are dross? When you have come to believe with Marcus Aurelius that the opinion of future generations will be worth no more than the opinion of the current one? Is it possible to behave well then? Desirable to behave well then?”
― Hannibal
― Hannibal
“Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
“that there had to be a place in the world for Mischa, a prime place vacated for her, and I came to think, Clarice, that the best place in the world was yours.”
― Hannibal
― Hannibal
“The world will not be this way within the reach of my arm.”
― Hannibal
― Hannibal
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