Kuzularin Sessizligi ve Hannibal romanlari ile taninan Amerikali yazar William Thomas Harris'in dogum gunu ( 22 Eylul 1940 )
" Yasami boyunca dunyanin cirkin bir sekilde rastgele bozdugu pek cok sey gormustu. Ama gercekte bunlari bilememisti ve simdi biliyordu. Insan soyu kimi zaman bir insan yuzu ardinda, Bati Virginia'daki Potter'daki o gul desenli duvar kagitli odadaki masanin ustunde gordugu seyden zevk alan bir zihin yaratirdi. Starling'in o zihin karsisinda duydugu ilk korku otopside gorebilecegi her seyden beterdi. Bu bilgi olumune kadar hep yuzeyde kalacakti ve Starling yasamak icin onu nasirlastirmak zorunda oldugunu biliyordu. "
" In her life she had seen some of the hideously offhand ways in which the world breaks things. But she hadn’t really known, and now she knew: sometimes the family of man produces, behind a human face, a mind whose pleasure is what lay on the porcelain table at Potter, West Virginia, in the room with the cabbage roses. Starling’s first apprehension of that mind was worse than anything she could see on the autopsy scales. The knowledge would lie against her skin forever. "
" Anlamayi ve hoslanmayi birbirine karistirmak cok kolaydir, hepimiz hoslanilmak icin kivraniriz. Bunlari birbirinden ayirabilme belki buyumenin bir parcasidir. Bir insanin sizden hoslanmadan sizi anlayabilmesi cok cirkin ve benimsenmesi cok zor bir sey. Anlamanin zalimin elinde bir silah oldugunu gordugumuzde ise daha kotu. ’’
" I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy—we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you. When you see understanding just used as a predator's tool, that's the worst. "
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