"How can everything be fine when you've been separated from your beloved bureau, not at your request? Come now, Clarice, don't you think I know you better than that? You've given the Bureau your all, loved it with all your heart, but then you found out that it didn't love you back, that in fact it resented you, more than the husband and children you gave up for it?"
He was on the down escalator now as she approached the spot where he had been just moments before, outside the Gap Kids store.
"Why do you think they resent you, Clarice? Just because you're female? No, it's far deeper than that. It's because you represent order, and they don't. They're weak and unruly and believe in nothing. Deny that if you can, Clarice."