Hannigram Quotes

1.05 Coquilles

Hannibal: "Although I may be, is it safe to assume you're not sleepwalking now."

Will: "I'm sorry it's so early."

Hannibal: "Never apologize for coming to me. Office hours are for patients. My kitchen is always open to friends. Onset of sleepwalking in adulthood is less common than in children."

Will: "Could it be a seizure?"

Hannibal: "I'd argue good old-fashioned post-traumatic stress. Jack Crawford has gotten your hands very dirty."

Will: "I wasn't forced back into the field."

Hannibal: "I wouldn't say forced. Manipulated would be the word I'd choose."

Will: "I can handle it."

Hannibal: "Somewhere between denying horrible events and calling them out lies the truth of psychological trauma."

Will: "So I can't handle it."

Hannibal: "Your experience may have overwhelmed ordinary functions that give you a sense of control."

Will: "If my body is walking around without my permission, you'd say that's a loss of control?"

Hannibal: "Wouldn't you?" [pause] "Sleepwalkers demonstrate a difficulty handling aggression. Are you experiencing difficulty with aggressive feelings?"

Will: "You said Jack sees me as fine china used for special guests. I'm beginning to feel more like an old mug."

Hannibal: "You entered into a devil's bargain with Jack Crawford. It takes a toll."

Will: "Jack isn't the devil."

Hannibal: "When it comes to how far he's willing to push you to get what he wants, he's certainly no Saint."

"I have no taste for animal cruelty, which is why I employ an ethical butcher. No need for unnecessary suffering. Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself. The gift that keeps on giving." Hannibal

Hannibal: "There is no one and only spiritual center of the brain. Any idea of God comes from many different areas of the mind working together in unison."

Will: "Maybe I was wrong. How do you profile someone who has an anomaly in their head changing the way they think?"

Hannibal: "A tumor can definitely affect brain function, even cause vivid hallucinations. However, what appears to be driving your angel maker to create heaven on earth is a simple issue of mortality."

Will: "Can't beat God, become him?"

Hannibal: "You said he was afraid."

Will: "He feels abandoned."

Hannibal: "Ever feel abandoned, Will?"

Will: "Abandonment requires expectation."

Hannibal: "What were your expectations of Jack Crawford and the FBI?"

Will: "Jack hasn't abandoned me."

Hannibal: "Not in any discernible way. Perhaps in the way gods abandon their creations. You say he hasn't abandoned you, but at the same time you find yourself wandering around Wolf Trap in the middle of the night."

Will: "Well... This should be interesting. Please, doctor, proceed."

Hannibal: "Jack gave you his word he would protect your headspace, yet he leaves you to your mental devices."

Will: "Are you trying to alienate me from Jack Crawford?"

Hannibal: "I'm trying to help you understand this angel maker you seek."

Will: "Well, help me understand how to catch him."

Hannibal: "If he were a classic paranoid schizophrenic, you might be able to influence him to become visible."

Will: "What, scare him out into the daylight?"

Hannibal: "Might even get him to hurt himself, if he hasn't already."

Will: "If he were selfdestructive, he-he-he wouldn't be so careful."

Hannibal: "Unless he's careful about being self-destructive, making angels to pray over him when he sleeps. Who prays over us when we sleep?"

Hannibal: "It's difficult to lie still and fear going to sleep. What is there to think about? You listen to your breathing in the dark and the tiny clicks of your blinking eyes."

Will: "I dream more now than I used to."

Hannibal: "Well, your dreams were the one place you could be physically safe, relinquishing control. Not anymore."

Will: "Yeah, I thought about zipping myself up into a sleeping bag before I go to sleep, but it, heh, sounds like a poor man's straightjacket."

Hannibal: "Have you determined how this angel maker is choosing his victims?"

Will: "Well, he doesn't see people how everyone else sees them. He can tell if you're naughty or nice, or he thinks he can."

Hannibal: "So God has given this person insight into the souls of men."

Will: "God didn't give him insight; God gave him a tumor. He's just a man whose brain is playing tricks on him."

Hannibal: "You are not unlike this killer."

Will: "My brain is playing tricks on me?"

Hannibal: "You want to feel such sweet and easy peace. The angel maker wants that same peace. He hopes to feel his way cautiously inside and then find it's endless, all around him."

Will: "He's gonna be disappointed."

Hannibal: "You accept the impossibility of such a feeling, whereas the angel maker is still chasing it. If he got close to it, that's why he will look for it again."

Will: "I've tried to reconstruct his thinking, find his patterns."

Hannibal: "Instead you find yourself in a behavior pattern you can't break. You realize you have a choice."

Will: "What is it?"

Hannibal: "Angel Maker will be destroyed by what's happening inside his head; You don't have to be."

Will: "Did you just smell me?"

Hannibal: "Difficult to avoid. I really must introduce you to a finer aftershave. That smells like something with a ship on the bottle."

Will: "Well, I keep getting it for Christmas."

Hannibal: "Have your headaches been any worse lately? More frequent?"

Will: "Yes, actually."

Hannibal: "I'd change the aftershave."