Spencer Reid quotes from Criminal Minds

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[to Dr. Bryer] The voices, they helped you right? It's where you get your ideas from. While the other kids were outside in the playground, you were inside reading, and studying, learning. The voices wouldn't stop. They... they helped you understand things that other people could never realize. Then, as you grew older, it became almost a responsibility, right? A responsibility to use that ability, to... to use your knowledge.

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Albert Einstein asked, "The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I or the others crazy?"

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People tell me their secrets all the time. I think it's because they know I don't have anyone to betray them to. Except my mother. I... I tell her pretty much everything.

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"It has been said time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." Rose Kennedy

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T. S. Eliot wrote, "Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow."

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T. S. Eliot wrote, "Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends."

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Referring to oneself in the third person is not uncommon for an unsub. Ted Bundy gave thoroughly detailed accounts of his murders, but he never actually admitted doing any of them, he'd just say, "the killer."

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"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." Cicero

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"Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities." Author Clive Barker

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Sometimes for an artist, the only difference between insanity and genius is success.

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"A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ." John Steinbeck

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"We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." Tom Stoppard

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"To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly." Benjamin Franklin

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Bob Dylan once said, "I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay."

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"What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father." Friedrich Nietzsche