When you feel strain, keep ...

When you feel strain, keep your mouth shut if you can.
 Thomas Harris

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I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
 Thomas Harris
He sees very clearly - he damn sure sees through me. It's hard to accept that someone can understand you without wishing you well. At Starling's age it hadn't happened to her much.
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Allegra Pazzi: Dr. Fell, do you believe a man could become so obsessed with a woman, from a single encounter? Hannibal Lecter: Could he daily feel a stab of hunger for her and find nourishment in the very sight of her? I think so. But would she see through the bars of his plight and ache for him?
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When Will Graham could open his right eye, he saw the clock and knew where he was- an intensive-care unit. He knew to watch the clock. Its movement assured him that this was passing, would pass. That's what it was there for.
 Thomas Harris