To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
I am the dragon, and you call me insane.
I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
Gratitude’s got a short half-life, Clarice.
Good-bye Clarice. Will you let me know if ever the lambs stop screaming?" "Yes. " Pembry was taking her arm. It was go or fight him. "Yes," she said. "I'll tell you. " "Do you promise?""Yes.
Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.
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.
In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
The way of success is not run with seven league boots but step by step, little by little, bit by bit. . . with no exceptions allowed.
You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see. ' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet. ' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.
When the men kill, it is up to us women to fight for the preservation of life.