Spencer Reid quotes from Criminal Minds

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"There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance." Gilbert Parker

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"No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore." Sigmund Freud

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"Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always gotten there first and is waiting for it." Terry Pratchett

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Stephen King wrote, "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win."

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"It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and it will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt." Exodus 9:9

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"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it." Helen Keller

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"In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons." Writer Montague Summers

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Mildred Lisette Norman wrote, "Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions."

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Isaac Asimov wrote, "In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."

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"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [NOTE: This quote was actually published in A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, in 1790, seven years before Shelley's birth and Wollstonecraft's death.]

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"The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller

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"Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today." Author James T. McCay

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Lizette Reese wrote, "The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out."

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"If it is a miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a fact, proof is necessary." Mark Twain

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"Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds." Franklin D. Roosevelt