(HANNIBAL) An imago is an image of a loved one buried in the unconscious, carried with us all our lives.
(WILL) An ideal.
(HANNIBAL) The concept of an ideal always searching for an objective reality to match. I have a concept of you just as you have a concept of me.
Quando tutti credono che sia semplice malinconia ma è pura melanconia che assorbe il mio essere e inghiotte ogni cosa lasciando solo un involucro vuoto rinsecchito in sé stesso.
(HANNIBAL) I let you in. I let you know me. I let you see me.
(WILL) You wanted to be seen.
(HANNIBAL) By you. A rare gift I've given you. But you didn't want it.
(WILL) … Didn't I?
touch me, bury me, break me: it's never going to stick. i'll always come back from the dead for you. we belonged to each other before we ever belonged to ourselves.