Hannigram Quotes

3.02 Primavera

(Later is revealed that Abigail actually died, so in the following dialog Will is in fact talking to himself.)

Abigail: "They told me he knew exactly how to cut me. They said it was surgical. He wanted us to live."

Will: "He left us to die."

Abigail: "But we didn't. He was supposed to take me with him. We were all supposed to leave together. He made a place for us."

Will: "Abigail..."

Abigail: "Why did you lie to him?"

Will: "The wrong thing being the right thing to do was... was too ugly a thought."

Abigail: "He gave you a chance to take it all back and you just kept lying. No one had to die."

Will: "It's hard to grasp what would've happened, what could've happened, and in some other world did happen."

Abigail: "I'm having a hard enough time dealing with this world. Hope some of the other worlds are... easier on me."

Will: "Everything that can happen, happens. It has to end well and it has to end badly. It has to end every way it can. This is the way it ended for us."

Abigail: "We don't have an ending. He didn't give us one yet. He wants us to find him."

Will: "After everything he's done, you'd still go to him?"

Abigail: "If everything that can happen, happens, then you can never really do the wrong thing. You're just doing what you're supposed to."

(Will is dreaming of Hannibal's office, remembering their conversation when they burned his notes:)

Hannibal: "When we have gone from this life, I will always have this place."

Will: "In your memory palace?"

Hannibal: "My palace is vast, even by medieval standards. The foyer is the Norman Chapel in Palermo; severe, beautiful, and timeless, with a single reminder of mortality: a skull graven in the floor."

Will: "Even in an enlightened world, we come here to feel closer to God."

Abigail: "Do you feel closer to God?"

Will: "God's not who I came here to find."

Abigail: "Do you believe in God?"

Will: "What I believe is closer to science fiction than anything in the Bible."

Abigail: "We all know it, but nobody ever says that G-dash-D won't do a G-dash-D-damned thing to answer anybody's prayers."

Will: "God can't save any of us because it's inelegant. Elegance is more important than suffering. That's His design."

Abigail: "You talking about God or Hannibal?"

Will: "Hannibal's not God. Wouldn't have any fun being God. Defying God, that's his idea of a good time. Nothing would thrill Hannibal more than to see this roof collapse mid-Mass, packed pews, choir singing... He would just love it. And he thinks God would love it, too."

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Will: "This is what Hannibal sees when he steps inside the frescoed walls of his own mind."

Abigail: "Do you feel closer to him here?"

Will: "This isn't Hannibal, it's just where he begins. Beyond this, far and complex, light and dark, is the vast structure of his mind. A thousand rooms, miles of corridors. Everything he remembers, wonderfully and fearfully reconstructed."