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not as continuous as that of a heroin-addicted baby,
weird comparison but ok
In every town there was a pawn shop near the bus station.
I just know a big boy like you can say his name. Say it for me.” The child’s face brightened. The big boys had helped him with this. He wanted to please. He collected himself. “Cunt Face,” he said.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
she had been brought up a lady and she had no marketable skills.
Which is why people shouldn't bring up their daughters to be only decorative, for they will suffer the shame of being useless!
He does not turn on the light. He finds the toilet in the dark and sits down on it like a good boy.
God, that's horrifying. The way his grandmother went from being pleased to see him to abusing him... poor guy. And it stuck with him all these years. That's heartbreaking.
batting easy conversational lobs to the strong points of the shy ones, turning the best facets of the bright ones in the light of the other guests’ attention is a considerable skill and one now sadly in decline.
She told him he was going back to Brother Buddy’s orphanage after she had punished him. “Go upstairs. Go to your room and take your trousers off and wait for me while I get my scissors.”
Oh my God, poor Francis
He imagined that burglars were breaking in and he protected Grandmother and she took back what she said. “You’re not a Child of the Devil after all, Francis. You are my good boy.”
I can't believe she called him a child of the devil, oh my God. What if he WAS a good boy who just made mistakes? Why was she so mean to him?
Sometimes in bed he held himself to be sure he hadn’t been cut.
This is harrowing.
Ned grabbed Francis by the ears and held him close to the mirror over the dressing table.
The kids' abuse bothers me less because kids are assholes, but again, POOR FRANCIS.
The past does not occur to him at all; only the Glory to come.
Well yes but he's clearly still traumatized.
entering the window of a woman’s house for a purpose never established,
👀
He was alone because he was Unique.
Lounds’s death had put him in an excellent humor.
that's mean. Although it does amuse me that Hannibal's the one who said that in the show (about someone else's death)
a handsome prairie face shaped by good bones and resolution.
The National Tattler paid for the elaborate service,
rode the greasy swells of his hangover
One of the gawkers wore a printed T-shirt reading “The Tooth Fairy Is a One-Night Stand.”
I love that they referenced that in the show (and had Girl Freddie selling them).
Graham was lonely, and he knew why; funerals often make us want sex—it’s one in the eye for death.
I would GLADLY help him out. At least, the Hugh Dancy version, and the one i RP with.
Blind people do not like to have their balance disturbed by a firm hold on their triceps. It is as unpleasant for them as standing on wiggly scales to weigh. Like anyone else, they don’t like to be propelled.
This was Having a Conversation.
I love that the Hannibooks did this LONG-ASS before Tumblr did.
She did not like for a man to creep in and out of her bed as though he were stealing chickens.
understandable.
a particularly cowardly mew about being so scarred by life that he was incapable of love.
love the sick burn.
The entrepreneur who hit the punk-rock market with “Tooth Fairy” T-shirts came out with an alternate line that said “The Red Dragon Is a One-Night Stand.” Sales were divided about equally between the two.
He had received orders from Above to make the federal presence more visible; he did not make it more audible, as he said nothing.
That's clever; I love it.
“You try to think out there, it’s like trying to take a piss on the train.”
“If you spend time in a mental hospital you pick up the drill. You could pass as an orderly, get a job doing it when you got out,” Graham said.
I get dumb after I eat.”
Crawford’s excellent administrative instincts were not tempered by mercy.
Literally just heard this in the trial episode in season 2.
There was Will Graham standing near the casket with the choir howling away. Graham was slender.
He had tried to share with Lecter, and Lecter had betrayed him.
SUCKS TO SUCK
“Tickle him. If he laughs, run for it.”
I love his sense of humor omg.
her fingers trailed over the furry testicles. She cupped them and moved on.
I'm sorry, why the HELL was that included?
the tiger heart’s bright thunder.
spoken lightly, very well done, but Reba knew that nobody is ever kidding.
His trousers are mashing him so hard.
flying through the friendly dark.
his own true feelings, no more able to express them than a scar can blush,
Did the Dragon not know the nomenclature of the iliac spine, or did he choose not to use it?
He wanted some relief. The letter was from Dr. Hannibal Lecter.
What a cunning boy you are!
your confinement in the mental hospital. My inept attorney should have brought that out in court, but never mind.
You know, Will, you worry too much. You’d be so much more comfortable if you relaxed with yourself.
I love the context in which he said this in the show.
Think about it, but don’t worry about it.
He had put his hand on Freddy’s shoulder in the Tattler photograph to establish that he really had told Freddy those insulting things about the Dragon. Or had he wanted to put Freddy at risk, just a little?
Graham did not realize, as Molly did, that he gave presents when he was angry.
Graham had been a poor child, following his father from the boatyards in Biloxi and Greenville to the lake boats on Erie. Always the new boy at school, always the stranger. He had a half-buried grudge against the rich.
Byron Metcalf’s voice was husky and his breathing heavy when he answered the telephone. Graham wondered what he was doing.
Yeah I think it's pretty obvious.
Holding him down until loss of blood made Sherman’s heart quiver like a bird.
