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"'Keep smiling.'"

"Problem-solving is hunting; it is savage pleasure and we are born to it,"

"It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well," (337-338).

"Pictures of the past few days punished Starling for the lapse, flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night."

"On to the studio and the vast black warren beyond."

"You have to be orderly, you have to be precise, you have to be expeditious, because the problems are formidable."

"It was a square, clever hand, marked with a lifetime of gardening, marked by IV needles now. When she came in from the garden, her hands smelled like thyme."

"Of the two brightest people Starling knew, one was also the steadiest persons he knew and the other was the most frightening. Starling hoped that gave her some balance in her acquaintance."

“And that is how he remained in Starling’s mind. Caught in the instant when he did not mock. Standing in his white cell, arched like a dancer, his hands clasped in front of him and his head slightly to the side.”

“If she could stand to meet those strange maroon eyes for long enough, if she looked deeply where the dark sucks in the sparks, she might see something useful. She thought she might see glee.”