Tag: quote

“As a doctor I had no choice. As a philosopher I had too many.”
– Hannibal Lecter

“There’s something we don’t have or maybe we just evolved not the need.”
– Matthew Brown

“When you’re gone he will feel your silence like a draft.”
– Hannibal Lecter

“I’ve always found the idea of death comforting. The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty and art and horror of everything this world has to offer.”
– Hannibal Lecter

Jack Crawford: “I’ve given my life to death.”
Hannibal Lecter: “And now death has followed you home and come to live in your house.”

Hannibal Lecter: “The boundaries of what’s considered normal are getting narrower.”

Will Graham: “Gratitude has a short half life.”
Hannibal Lecter: “So does doubt.”

Lawyer: “Is Will Graham an intelligent psychopath?”
Frederick Chilton: “There is not yet a name for whatever Will Graham is.”

Will Graham: “I’ve lost the plot. I am the unreliable narrator of my story.”

Hannibal Lecter: “What exactly am I guilty of?”
Bedelia Du Maurier: “Exactly? I can’t say. I’ve had to draw a conclusion based on what I glimpsed through the stitching of the person suit that you wear.”

Hannibal Lecter: “A life lived accrues in the cracks.”

Hannibal Lecter: “When it comes to nature versus nurture, I choose neither.”

Hannibal Lecter: “We are built from a DNA blueprint and born into a world of  scenario and circumstance we don’t control.”
Jack Crawford: “Praise the mutilated world.”

Hannibal Lecter: “Killing must feel good to God too, he does it all the time. And are we not created in his image?”

“He sees his own mentality as grotesque but useful. Like a chair of antlers.”
– Hannibal Lecter on Will Graham

“You’re not my friend. Even the light from friendship won’t reach us for a million years.”
– Will Graham on Hannibal Lecter

“What you did to me is in my head and I will find it…and when I do there will be a reckoning.”
– Will Graham

“I am not the intelligent psychopath you’re looking for.”
– Will Graham