"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
"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.]
"The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering."
William Glasser wrote, "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today."
"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they are in the game." Comedian Paul Rodriguez
"Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." Novelist Vladimir Nabokov
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." Sally Kempton
"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder the firm resolve of a determined soul." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet tomorrow is too often a repetition of today." Author James T. McCay
I knew you were watching me.
IDIan Doyle
What's the expression? Keep your friends close, your enemies under surveillance?
I've been here for two hours. You should know better than to keep a lady waiting.
DDoyle
Seems hypocritical, seeing as I had to wait seven years. [sits across from Prentiss]
Hello, Ian.
DDoyle
Hello, Lauren. Oh, wait. Lauren Reynolds died in a car accident, didn't she?
What do you want?
DDoyle
You. Oh, not today, don't worry about that. But soon.
I've got a Glock leveled at your crotch. What's to stop me from taking you and the little ones out right now?
DDoyle
You'd never make it back to your car and you know it. Tell me, does the lovely Penelope know the truth about you? Or is she too busy watching movies with Derek to care? Here you are, all alone, while Aaron sits at home with his son. And why didn't Dave and Ashley invite you to their game night? Maybe they thought you'd be on the Metro with Dr. Reid. Well, that one does have some quirks.
Come near my team and I will end you.
DDoyle
I don't have a quarrel with them. How long that remains the case depends entirely on you. They're innocent. You're not.
I was doing my job.
DDoyle
I think you did a little more than that. You took the only thing that mattered to me. So I'm going to take the only thing that matters to you: your life. [takes out a matchbook with a four leaf clover on the cover and puts it on the table between them] Honoré de Balzac once said, "Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence." Tell me, Emily Prentiss, which do you think you're going to be? [gets up from the table and walks away]
Lao Tzu said, "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
Journalist Dorothy Dix wrote, "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets and takes its own punishment in silence."
"The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another." Author Elizabeth Bear
Psychoanalyst Walter Langer wrote, "People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one, and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it."
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