Crimson Lake Road Quotes

“Do you know about twin souls? It’s a theory that we all have a twin soul, a soul identical to ours that we meet out there in our lives when we’re ready. We fall for them because we connect so deeply on a physical, spiritual, and mental level, but the twin soul is not a sexual relationship. Sex is crude. Primitive. The twin soul is far deeper, and the train wrecks of marriages you see are from people trying to make a romantic relationship work with their twin souls, rather than recognizing it’s deeper than that. Your soul mate, who you should be in a romantic relationship with, and your twin soul, who you should be in a spiritual relationship with, are not the same thing. But when you meet your twin soul, it’s like the rest of the world disappears, and there’s nothing you want more than to be with them.” She paused and seemed lost in thought a moment. “I was Edward’s twin soul. You must have really had a hold on him for him to not even be tempted to make love to me.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“It’s a theory that we all have a twin soul, a soul identical to ours that we meet out there in our lives when we’re ready. We fall for them because we connect so deeply on a physical, spiritual, and mental level, but the twin soul is not a sexual relationship. Sex is crude. Primitive. The twin soul is far deeper, and the train wrecks of marriages you see are from people trying to make a romantic relationship work with their twin souls, rather than recognizing it’s deeper than that. Your soul mate, who you should be in a romantic relationship with, and your twin soul, who you should be in a spiritual relationship with, are not the same thing. But when you meet your twin soul, it’s like the rest of the world disappears, and there’s nothing you want more than to be with them.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“the middle of the night when the rest of the world slept, were the loneliest of the day. The time when she most felt isolated from the world.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“There’s always things to laugh about, Jess. We’re here to have joy, not to pay bills until we end up in a cemetery.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“The quote under her profile picture was Be the change you want to see in the world.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“The FBI recognized four categories of serial murderers: dominance—those who needed power over another for sexual gratification; hallucinatory—those compelled by voices or visions; objective oriented—those on a mission to exterminate a particular class of people like prostitutes or a racial minority group; and lust—those for whom violence and sex were the same things. No”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“We all break sometimes. But if we know how to put ourselves back together, we’ll be stronger in all those places.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“Sarpong thought that every evil action humans commit is because of this evolutionary adaptation and our inability to recognize that our morality’s been turned off. That’s why seemingly good people can rape and murder in times of war and not feel guilt, or why prison guards can murder and torture and still believe themselves moral people. Evolution gave us the ability to trick ourselves.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“Sarpong was obsessed with human evolution. He believed that humans were inherently good, but that evolution gave us the ability to turn our morality off. Like a switch. This was so that, in survival situations where our self-interest was at stake, we could do what we needed to do. But Sarpong believed that evolution had also done something far more devastating than Freud could have imagined: it hides when our morality is shut off.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“dominance—those who needed power over another for sexual gratification; hallucinatory—those compelled by voices or visions; objective oriented—those on a mission to exterminate a particular class of people like prostitutes or a racial minority group; and lust—those for whom violence and sex were the same things. No dominance was involved, as the victims had been unconscious during the entire interaction, and dominance killers needed their victims to know they were being dominated. Pharr and River were not from any ethnic, racial, or religious minority groups. The possibilities were that he was being compelled by hallucinations he believed were instructing him to carry out the killings; that he was a lust killer, though the evidence for sexual assault was sparse; or that this was not serial murder at all but murder for money, for revenge, or for hire, with the allusions to Sarpong thrown in to deceive law enforcement. Or this was an entirely unique type of serial predator as yet unidentified by the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit. If he was a lust or hallucinatory killer, he wouldn’t stop until he was dead or in prison. Until then, all he could do was keep moving”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“serial murder investigations. The problem was that as of right now, there were”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“batrachotoxin is that you can make it into a spray form and spray it onto surfaces. It has a half-life of dozens of hours. So if anyone were to spray it on, say, a bunch of doorknobs and the arms to an office chair, just touching them even for a moment would get the skin to absorb the toxin. First it causes itching as the sodium ion channels in your muscles and nerves can’t close. After the itching come the convulsions, and then paralysis. It’s really slow, actually. It starts in your feet and works its way up, and you just have to sit there and wait while you feel it crawling up your body.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“Sarpong”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“I think you have the right to feel however you want to feel.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“The tests you’d need to perform to confirm ricin poisoning are really specific. You can’t even test it in fluids. You have to do polymerase chain reactions with DNA to confirm it’s there. And it’s so rare your toxicologists wouldn’t even think to screen for it, and even if they did, they still might not pick it up if enough molecules aren’t there.” Yardley had dealt with a couple of poisonings before and had come across a bit of research that suggested if a person wanted to kill using poison, ingestion was not the best method, as traces of the poison would be found in the stomach or intestines. Injection was cleaner and less detectable, and the areas of the body that were best for injection, that had the least chance of being noticed in an autopsy, were the tongue and eyes.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“Loneliness could be adapted to. It could get so she wouldn’t even notice it anymore and being around others would just feel like a special occasion.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“Caravaggio was a murderer. Cellini murdered multiple people and the local villagers let him go unpunished because they were such admirers of his art. Banksy today is greatly admired, and yet he’s truly little more than a criminal.” “If you don’t see the difference between putting graffiti on a building and slaughtering families, then you’ve crossed into a place I can’t follow.” “I’m simply saying that great art occasionally comes from great insanity.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road

“He said no. That he was faithful to you. Quite rare in a man to be able to deny someone who is so connected to him, heart and soul. Do you know about twin souls? It’s a theory that we all have a twin soul, a soul identical to ours that we meet out there in our lives when we’re ready. We fall for them because we connect so deeply on a physical, spiritual, and mental level, but the twin soul is not a sexual relationship. Sex is crude. Primitive. The twin soul is far deeper, and the train wrecks of marriages you see are from people trying to make a romantic relationship work with their twin souls, rather than recognizing it’s deeper than that. Your soul mate, who you should be in a romantic relationship with, and your twin soul, who you should be in a spiritual relationship with, are not the same thing. But when you meet your twin soul, it’s like the rest of the world disappears, and there’s nothing you want more than to be with them.”
― Victor Methos, Crimson Lake Road