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"'This is about my crucifixion watch,' Dr Lecter said…'Jesus is on the cross, as you see there, and the arms revolve to indicate the time, just like the arms on the popular Disney watches.'"

"'Hold on, girl,' she said aloud. She said it to Catherine Martin and she said it to herself. 'We're better than this room. We're better than this fucking place,' she said aloud. 'We're better than wherever he's got you. Help me. Help me. Help me.'"

"We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows…in rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom. Starling was old enough to know that; she didn't let the room affect her."

"Sometimes the fear stood on her chest the way a trapper kills a fox. Sometimes she could think."