"And for some reason, she affords you the privilege of not fighting you," Dr. Lecter says.

Never doubting that she could.

In his memory palace, there is a room that contains the model of a labyrinth of thorny hedges and walls armed with broken bottles on top, with pins that have names on stuck to various staged inside. Most pins are red; only four of them are green.

"Friends are worth more if they could take you down, but do not do so."