There’s something you don’t want me to know about you. Why, there’s something you’re ashamed of. Or is it something you can’t afford for me to know?

Thomas Harris, Red Dragon [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]

Hermetic quote Harris Red Dragon something you don't want me to know about you

Consider also:

  1. “should I now be entering these other realms, these secret twilight places, which may have hidden dangers?”
  2. “Plenty of men—and women—have already gone where I’m going. But I’ll be the first person currently in this room to make the trip.”
  3. “nothing was ever challenging enough to tie him up for days or of course make him wake up in the middle of the night screaming. As soon as he had seen the trick, or the pattern, or—in the case of corporate decision-making and preening—the deep layers of bullshit, he was bored enough to need a drink.”
  4. “I’d come to live as a human, to experience all the human traditions. And spending many a beautiful afternoon cooped up at the library service desk in order to make sure a bunch of middle schoolers weren’t playing dirty dating sims on the computers apparently counted as one.”
  5. “Her beatitude leant forward to her, as if to embrace. The rich presence enveloped her; out of a broken and contrite heart she sighed with joy. On the inhaled breath her splendour glowed again; on the exhaled it passed. She stood alone, at peace. Dawn was in the air; ecce omnia nova facio.”