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God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.Thomas Harris
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I know what you're afraid of. It's not pain, or solitude. It's indignity you can't stand, Hannibal, you're like a cat that way.Thomas Harris
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He lives down in a ribcage in the dry leaves of a heart.Thomas Harris
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Can you smell his sweat? That peculiar goatish odor is trans-3-methyl-2 hexenoic acid. Remember it, it's the smell of schizophrenia.Thomas Harris
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It was as though committing murders had purged him of lesser rudeness. Or perhaps, Starling thought, it excited him to see her marked in this particular way. She couldn't tell. The sparks in his eyes flew into his darkness like fireflies down a cave.Thomas Harris
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Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.Thomas Harris
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Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect you can see it too. Some of our stars are the same.Thomas Harris
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When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.Thomas Harris