Bedelia: You are obsessed with Will Graham. Hannibal: I'm intrigued. Bedelia: Obsessively.
-Bedelia Du Maurier to Hannibal LecterHe sees his own mentality as grotesque but useful. Like a chair of antlers.
-Hannibal about Will GrahamThere will be a reckoning.
-Will Graham to HannibalMemories are all I have.
-Will Graham to Jack CrawfordHannibal: I'm resuming Will Graham's therapy. Bedelia: To what end? Besides your own. Hannibal: He asked for my help. Bedelia: Then maybe you deserve eachother.
-Bedelia Du Maurier to Hannibal Lecter
2x02 "Sakizuke"
When it comes to nature versus nurture I choose neither. We are built form a DNA blueprint and born into a world of scenario and circumstance we don't control.
-Hannibal LecterThis is my design.
-Will GrahamJames: There is no God. Hannibal: Certainly not with that attitude.
-Hannibal Lecter to James Gray
2x03 "Hassun"
Not only is justice blind, it's mindless and heartless.
-Hannibal Lecter
2x05 "Mukōzuke"
This is my design.
-Will Graham
2x07 "Yakimono"
All of this has been my design.
-Will GrahamI have to deal with you and my feelings about you.
-Will Graham to Hannibal Lecter
2x08 "Su-zakana"
It was my turn to provide the meat.
-Will GrahamI prefer sins of omission to outright lies, Dr Lecter. Don't lie to me.
-Will Graham to Hannibal LecterHannibal: You fantasize about killing me? Wil: Yes. Hannibal: Tell me how would you do it? Will: With my hands.
-Will Graham to Hannibal LecterI don't want to kill you anymore, Dr. Lecter. Not now that I finally find you interesting.
-Will Graham to Hannibal LecterIt's fine to be weird.
-Hannibal Lecter to Margot VergerDo you have a shadow, Peter? Someone only you can see. Someone you considered a friend. Who made you feel less alone? Until you saw what he really is.
-Will Graham to Peter BernardonePeter: I think I hate him. Will: I envy you your hate. It makes it easier when you know how to feel.
-Will Graham to Peter BernardoneWith all my knowledge and intrusion, I could never entirely predict you. I can feed the caterpillar, and I can whisper through the chrysalis, but what hatches... follows its own nature and is beyond me.
-Hannibal Lecter to Will Graham
2x09 "Shiizakana"
Hannibal: Must I denounce myself as a monster while you still refuse to see the one growing inside you? Why not appeal to my better nature? Will: I wasn't aware you had one. Hannibal: No one can be fully aware of another human being unless we love them. By that love we potential in our beloved. Through that love, we allow our beloved to see their potential. Expressing that love, out beloved's potential comes true.
-Hannibal Lecter to Will GrahamAdapt. Evolve. Become.
-Will GrahamMan is the only creature that kills to kill.
-Peter Bernardone to Will Graham"No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his own rage."
-Hannibal (Original Quote by Plutarch)Hannibal: Animals are far more like humans than we ever realized. And humans are far more like animals. One thin barrier between us. Jack: And for some that barrier is way too thin.
-Hannibal Lecter to Jack CrawfordI sent someone to kill you. You sent someone to kill me. Even Steven.
-Will Graham to Hannibal Lecter
2x10 "Naka-choko"
Without death we'd be at a loss. It's the prospect of death that drives us to greatness.
-HannibalHannibal: Stay with me. Will: Where else would I go?
-Hannibal Lecter to Will GrahamWill: You forced me to kill you. Randall: I didn't force you to enjoy it.
-Will Graham to Randall TierThis is my design.
-Will GrahamThis is the nightmare that followed him out of his dreams.
-Will Graham about Randall Tier
2x11 "Kō No Mono"
casionally, I drop a teacup to shatter on the floor. On purpose. I'm not satisfied when it doesn't gather itself up again. Somedays perhaps, a cup will come together.
-HannibalWill, should the universe contract, should time reverse and teacups come together, a place could be made for Abigail in your world.
-Hannibal Lecter to Will Graham
2x12 "Tome-wan"
Whenever feasible one should always try to eat the rude.
-Hannibal LecterWill: You don't want me to have anything in my life, that's not you. Hannibal: I only want what's best for you.
-Will Graham to Hannibal LecterAchilles wished all the Greeks would die, so that he and Patroclus could conquer Troy alone. Took divine intervention to bring them down.
-Hannibal Lecter to Will Graham
2x13 "Mizumono"
See? see.
-Garrett Jacob HobbsThere are holes in the floors of a mind.
-HannibalWe could disappear now. Tonight.
-Hannibal Lecter to Will GrahamThe most beautiful quality of a true friendship is to understand and to be understood with absolute clarity.
-HannibalWill: You were supposed to leave. Hannibal: We couldn't leave without you.
-Will Graham to Hannibal LecterTime did reverse. The teacup that I shattered did come together.
-Hannibal Lecter to Will GrahamHannibal: I let you know me. See me. I gave you a rare gift. But you didn't want it. Will: Didn't I? Hannibal: You would deny me my life. Will: No. No not your life no. Hannibal: My freedom than, 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: I already did.
-Hannibal Lecter to Will GrahamClose your eyes. Wade into the quiet of the stream.
