those claws, those claws

[agirlahaunt]

You can be merry with [him], you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it’s like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you’re thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws.

— Hilary Mantel, Bring Up The Bodies

CHIYOH: He was charming the way a cub is charming, a small cub that grows up to be like one of the big cats.
WILL GRAHAM: One you can’t play with later. 


— Hannibal 3x03, “Secondo” written by Tom de Ville, Bryan Fuller, & Steve Lightfoot