Will Graham quotes from Hannibal

Freddie Lounds

I'm going to enjoy my resurrection. Nothing sells better than a survival story.

Will Graham

I wouldn't consider us as survivors just yet, Freddie.

Freddie Lounds

Counting me as a survivor? I started as a cancer editor for a supermarket tabloid.

Will Graham

Cancer is a very lucrative media.

Freddie Lounds

Ain't that the truth? "New Cures for Cancer", "New Miracle Cure"...

Will Graham

We're all desperate for a little hope.

Hannibal Lecter

[to Will] I let you know me... see me. I gave you a rare gift, but you didn't want it.

Will Graham

Didn't I?

Hannibal Lecter

You would deny me my life?

Will Graham

No. No. No, not your life.

Hannibal Lecter

My freedom, then. You would take that from me. Confine me to a prison cell. Do you believe you could change me, the way I've changed you?

Will Graham

I already did.

Hannibal Lecter

Fate and circumstance have returned us back to this moment, when the teacup shatters. I forgive you, Will. Do you forgive me?

Abigail Hobbs

Do you believe in God?

Will Graham

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

Abigail Hobbs

We all know it, but nobody ever says that G-dash-d won't do a G-dash-d-damn thing to answer anybody's prayers.

Will Graham

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

Abigail Hobbs

Are you talking about God or Hannibal?

Will Graham

Hannibal's not God. He wouldn't have any fun being God. Defying God, that's his idea of a good time. There's nothing he'd love more than to see this roof collapse mid-Mass, choirs singing... he would just love it, and he thinks God would love it, too.

What will you do when you find him, your il Mostro?

Will Graham

I'm curious about that myself.

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.

I accept what Hannibal has done. I understand why he has done it.

Will Graham

Mischa doesn't explain what Hannibal is. She doesn't quantify what he does.

He does what was done to her.

Will Graham

How do you know it was your prisoner who killed Mischa?

Hannibal told me so. Why are you searching for Hannibal after he left you [points to Will's scar] with a smile?

Will Graham

I've never known myself as well as I know myself when I'm with him.

Frederick Chilton

He knew exactly how to cut you.

Will Graham

They said it was surgical.

Frederick Chilton

He wanted you to live.

Will Graham

I'm visiting old friends.

Alana Bloom

You're not tempted to forget?

Will Graham

I don't wanna forget. I'm building rooms in my memory palace for all my friends.

Alana Bloom

Friendship with Hannibal is blackmail, elevated to the level of love.

Will Graham

A mutually unspoken pact to ignore the worst in one another in order to continue enjoying the best.

Alana Bloom

After everything he's done, can you still ignore the worst in him?

Will Graham

You had him, Jack. He was beaten. Why didn't you kill him?

Jack Crawford

Maybe I need you to.

Hannibal Lecter

[upon reuniting with Will] If I saw you every day, forever, Will, I would remember this time.

Will Graham

Strange seeing you here in front of me. Been staring at afterimages of you in places you haven't been in years.

Hannibal Lecter

Where does the difference between the past and the future come from?

Will Graham

Mine? Before you and after you.

Hannibal Lecter

How is Chiyoh?

Will Graham

She pushed me off a train.

Hannibal Lecter

Atta girl.

Hannibal Lecter

Freeing yourself from me and me freeing myself from you, they're the same.

Will Graham

We're conjoined. I'm curious whether either of us can survive separation.

Hannibal Lecter

[about killing him] Would you have done it quickly, or would you have stopped to gloat?

Will Graham

Does God gloat?

Hannibal Lecter

Often.

Will Graham

I'm not going to find you. I'm not going to look for you. I don't want to know where you are or what you do. I don't want to think about you anymore.

Hannibal Lecter

You delight in wickedness and then berate yourself for the delight.

Will Graham

You delight; I tolerate. I don't have your appetite. Goodbye, Hannibal.

Will Graham

[about the Tooth Fairy investigation] If I go, I'll be different when I come back.

I won't.