Spencer Reid quotes from Criminal Minds

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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." Søren Kierkegaard

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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another." Ernest Hemingway

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"Hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says, 'Hold on!'" Rudyard Kipling

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"You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that they will somehow connect in your future." Steve Jobs

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T. S. Eliot wrote, "This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper."

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"It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge." Friedrich Nietzsche

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"Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can show us how a person wants to be seen." Joanna Scott

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Christopher Marlowe wrote, "It lies not in our power to love or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate."

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"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." A. A. Milne

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"Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move." David Foster Wallace

Hotch

I'm Agent Hotchner, this is Special Agent Doctor Reid.

You look too young to have gotten into medical school.

Reid

They're PhD's. Three of them.

Are you a genius or something?

Reid

I don't believe that intelligence can be accurately quantified, but I do have an I.Q. of 187, an eidetic memory and can read 20,000 words per minute. [off David's look] Yes, I'm a genius.

Morgan

Reid, are you good with this? We've got a woman who's only got a few hours left to live, an incomplete profile and a Unit Chief on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

Gideon

[Gideon comes in from behind him] They don't call them nervous breakdowns anymore.

Reid

It's called a "Major Depressive Episode."

Morgan

I know, Reid.

Gideon

"Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

Reid

Samuel Beckett.

Morgan

"Try not. Do or do not."

Reid

Yoda.

Reid

Do you know why he [Gideon] always introduces me as Dr. Reid?

Hotch

Because he knows that people see you as a kid and he wants to make sure that they respect you.

Morgan

Alright, I'm an insomniac who listens to Metallica to go to sleep at night. What song could possibly speak to me?

Reid

Enter Sandman.