Chiyoh: "On still evenings, when the air was damp after a rain, we played a game. Hannibal would burn all kinds of barks and incense for me to identify by scent alone. He was charming... the way a cub is charming. A small cub that grows up to be like one of the big cats."

Will: "One you can't play with later."

Chiyoh: "The day I met Hannibal, he was an orphan. I was meant to meet him with his sister, but he was alone."

Will: "How did you meet him?"

Chiyoh: "I was his aunt's attendant. My parents sent me to learn from Lady Murasaki when I was just a girl. I learned from Hannibal, too."

Will: "He comes in the guise of a mentor, but it's distress that excites him."

Chiyoh: "I'm not in distress."

Will: "Not anymore. You had a strict rule about taking life and you broke it. Is it on your mind? Do you see yourself kill him over and over?"

Chiyoh: "No. I see you. How do you know Hannibal's in Florence?"

Will: "Botticelli."

Chiyoh: "I've never been to Italy. I've never expected to. Birds eat thousands of snails every day. Some of those snails survive digestion and emerge to find they've traveled the world."

Will: "In the belly of the beast."

Chiyoh (deleted line): "When we find him, I will have steady hands and a slow heart. Will you?" script: Will offers a faint smile, glances out the window. She stares at him a moment, then glances outside herself.

Hannibal: "I kept cochlear gardens as a young man to attract fireflies. Their larvae would devour many times their own body weight in snails. Fuel... to power a transformation into a delicate creature of such beauty."

Bedelia: "To the misfortune of the snail."

Hannibal: "Snails follow their nature as surely as those that eat them."

Bedelia: "Fireflies live very brief lives."

Hannibal: "Better to live true to yourself for an instant than never know it."

Bedelia: "Not like Will Graham does."

Hannibal: "An insect lacks morality to agonize over. Will agonizes about inevitable change."

Bedelia: "Almost anything can be trained to resist its instinct. A shepherd dog doesn't savage the sheep."

Hannibal: "But it wants to. Will has reached a state of moral dumbfounding. Empathy and reciprocity."

Bedelia: "Reciprocity. If we keep track of incoming and outgoing intentions, Will Graham is en route to kill you while you lie in wait to kill him. Now that's reciprocity."

script of the fight scene with Jack: Hannibal lands, face stung with a hundred tiny cuts. Not even trying to fight back. He slowly gets to his feet and begins to limp away halfheartedly.

The proof that Hannibal didn’t even try in his second fight with Jack. He was indeed bordering on being suicidal at that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YSd4nAFKR8

Will: "In the gnawing sameness of your days... did you look at the shape of things? At... what you were becoming?"

Chiyoh: "I wasn't becoming anything. I was standing still. Exactly where he left me standing. Like taxidermy."

Will: "Hollowed out and... filled with something else."

Chiyoh: "Not something else. I'm not as malleable as you are. I was violent when it was the right thing to do. But I think you like it."

Will: "We (Hannibal and I) afforded each other an experience we may not otherwise have had."

Chiyoh: "If you don't kill him, you're afraid you are going to become him."

Will: "Yes."

Chiyoh: "There are means of influence other than violence."

Chiyoh: "I like the night. It's more than a period of time; it's another place. It's different from where we are during the day."

Will: "We're different from who we are during the day. Little more hidden, little less seen."

Chiyoh: "When life is most like a dream."

Will: "Why are you searching for him? What are you hoping to find?"

Chiyoh: "I'm not searching for Hannibal. I know exactly where he is."

Will: "Is he in Florence?"

Chiyoh: "Yes."

Will: "Why didn't you tell me you knew?"

Chiyoh: "I told you... there are means of influence other than violence." (kisses Will) "But violence is what you understand." (throws Will off the train)

Will lies injured on the train tracks, the stag touches him, wakes him up, he follows it into the night.