Isabel Jervis

“Nothing happened to me, Officer Starling. I happened. You can't reduce me to a set of influences.”
― Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs

“How do you behave when you know the conventional honors are dross? When you have come to believe with Marcus Aurelius that the opinion of future generations will be worth no more than the opinion of the current one? Is it possible to behave well then? Desirable to behave well then?”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to to credit your own opinion.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“that there had to be a place in the world for Mischa, a prime place vacated for her, and I came to think, Clarice, that the best place in the world was yours.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal