- [after Hannibal stabs a dinner guest, Bedelia pulls the murder weapon out and the body slumps to the table]
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Technically, you killed him.
- Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier: Why can't you go home, Hannibal? What happened to you there?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Nothing happened to me. I happened.
- Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier: Betrayal and forgiveness are... best seen as something akin to falling in love.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: You cannot control with respect to whom you fall in love.
- Will Graham: We construct fairy tales and we accept them. Our minds concoct all sorts of fantasies when we don't want to believe something.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Screams fill some of those places, but the corridors do not echo screaming... because I hear music.