“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.”
― The Silence of the Lambs
― The Silence of the Lambs
“No matter how tough you think you are, there are certain things that just get to you, and they’re usually the little things. The ones you don’t expect.”
― Dorothy Must Die
― Dorothy Must Die
“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“With all the magic in Oz, with all the magic the witches had taught me, there was one trick I still hadn't mastered: how to make people stay.”
― Dorothy Must Die
― Dorothy Must Die
“Mischa, we take comfort in knowing there is no God. That you are not enslaved in Heaven, made to kiss God’s ass forever. What you have is better than Paradise. You have blessed oblivion. I miss you every day.”
― Hannibal Rising
― Hannibal Rising
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