Thomas Harris Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. April 11, 1940
Birthday: April 11
We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.
source: Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.159, Macmillan
topic: Heart, Cafes, Gestures, Ashtrays, Short Notice
