Isabel Jervis

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

“His empty hands hanging palms forward at his sides, he stood at the window looking to the empty east. He did not look for dawn; east was only the way the window faced.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs