Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

1) One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things
which are already in the mind. \ Alphonse Bertillon
2) c For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.
WILLIAM BLAKE, Songs of Innocence, ('The Divine Image')

Cruelty has a Human Heart,
And Jealousy a Human Face,
Terror the Human Form Divine,
And Secrecy the Human Dress.

The Human Dress is forged Iron,
The Human Form a fiery Forge,
The Human Face a Furnace seal'd,
The Human Heart its hungry Gorge.
WILLIAM BLAKE, Songs of Experience, ('A Divine Image')*

* After Blake's death, this poem was found with prints from the plates
of Songs of Experience. It appears only in posthumous editions.
3) I remembered that I love him. It felt like something breaking with
a little pain and spilling warm.
4) I'm here and I'll be here whenever you come home, or I'll meet you
anywhere, any time.
5) It's hard to have anything, isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep
it. This is a damn slippery planet.
6) She knew the value of their days. She could hold a moment by its
stem. She had taught him to relish.
7) this is too good to live for long.
8) With Reba, his only living woman, held with her in this one
bubbleskin of time, he felt for the first time that it was all right:
it was his life he was releasing, himself past all mortality that he
was sending into her starry darkness, away from this pain planet,
ringing harmonic distances away to peace and the promise of rest.
9) We don't invent our natures, Will; they're issued to us along with
our lungs and pancreas and everything else. Why fight it?
10) There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.
11) He wondered if, in the great body of humankind, in the minds of
men set on civilization, the vicious urged we control in ourselves and
the dark distinctive knowledge of those urges function like the
crippled virus the body arms against.
He wondered if old, awful urges are the virus that makes vaccine.
Yes, he had been wrong about Shiloh. Shiloh isn't haunted \ men are
haunted.
Shiloh doesn't care.
12) And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly:
I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
-- Ecclesiastes 1:17

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