"This is a foolish way to spend your life. I'm sure you're aware."
He completed his work on the wound on the front, and fetched the lidocaine syringe before moving on to the one on the other side. He was a little more rough in his application of the anesthetic, as if to tell Jonathan of his displeasure in that way, as well.
"If you aren't happy, you need to be doing things that make you so. You've only got the one life. There's nothing after it to look forward to."
Hannibal did not believe in Heaven or Hell, and despite what Lestat might tell him, he did not believe in God, either. He believed in what he saw in front of him, the evidences of science. He did, however, have a new twist on the length of life, given his introduction to vampires.
"Make this existence everything that you wish it to be, Jonathan. Passivity doesn't suit you in any form."