If anything is mine in this house, it's my story. And you took it and used it. Did you think I didn't get that part?

Catherine [to Ruth]

I used to love to sew. I know, ironic. Now I knit.

Catherine [to Clarice]

Catherine: I'm sorry. There are bad days.
Clarice: Yeah, oh course.
Catherine: But I'm not at the bottom of a well, so ...

Esquivel: All these offices. They're trading on the life and death of human beings.
Tripathi: So do we. You're so bleak.
Esquivel: I get it from my mom.

Clarice: I'm good.
Ardelia: Really? Is that why you're wearing two different shoes?

Clarice: Martin doesn't have any idea how to reach Catherine and she thinks I do.
Ardelia: So you're going over there with a Pez dispenser of magical thinking, they'll have a happy reunion, and you'll go back in the field against all rational advice. Hmm hmm.

Ruth: You're practically a martyr to the victims.
Clarice: Respectfully, isn't that why you brought me in, ma'am?

Esquivel [to Clarice]: I'll shoot you, if it will make you sit your ass down for two weeks.
Ardelia: Here, here.

Clarice: Admin leave?
Clarke: Boss says. Also it's BU standard when we experience trauma in the field.
Clarice: Hey, it's not like I was shot.

Clarice: I just wish that I could remember.
Ardelia: It's not on you. It's not on anyone of us. It's on that bastard who put you here.

Clarice: If we're gonna find him ...
Ardelia: Oh, believe me. We're going to find him. You dug in and held on to a piece of him. He can't hide. He's there, under your nails. His DNA.

Clarice Season 1 Episode 6 Quotes

Clarice: I just wish that I could remember.
Ardelia: It's not on you. It's not on anyone of us. It's on that bastard who put you here.

Clarice: If we're gonna find him ...
Ardelia: Oh, believe me. We're going to find him. You dug in and held on to a piece of him. He can't hide. He's there, under your nails. His DNA.