Criminal Minds Quotes

Reid: You can't scream with your throat cut.

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Reid: May we come in?
Tobias: I´m sorry. I don´t let anyone in the house.
Reid: Actually, I really have to, you know, go.
JJ: You do?
Reid: Yeah, for thirty minutes.
JJ: Why didn´t you say something in the car?

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Hotchner: There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins. -Ecclesiastes 7: 20

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Reid: If you tell me where we are, I can tell my friends, and they'll save us.
Tobias: We can't be saved.

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JJ: [about Reid being kidnapped] I keep thinking the one thing we need to crack this case is, well, Reid.

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Hotchner: Think of this house as a witness. If it could talk, what would it tell us?
Garcia: My guess is, it would tell us to get the hell out.

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Tobias: They're gone.
Reid: Who are they?
Tobias: It's just me now.
Reid: Who, who are you?
Tobias: I'm Raphael.

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Reid: You don't have to do this.
Tobias: [as Raphael] I'm just an instrument of God.

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Morgan: [Regarding Hankle brutally torturing Reid] I'm gonna put this guy's head on a stick.

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Reid: The Lord spake unto Moses saying 'speak unto all of the congregation of The Children of the Lord and say unto them, you shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy.'
Tobias: You know Leviticus?
Reid: Every word of the Bible. I can recite it.
Tobias: The Devil knows how to read too.
Reid: I'm not a Devil. I'm not a Devil, I'm a man, my name is Spencer Reid. I have a mother and I have a father just like you and they taught me the Bible. Let me, let me just recite the Bible.
Tobias: It's time to confess, Spencer Reid [whips Reid's foot repeatedly]

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Hotchner: [desperately] We're not getting any closer.
Gideon: Reid's brilliant. He'll figure out a way to survive.
Hotchner: You know I always take advantage of Reid for his brain, but I never actually teach him how to deal with things emotionally.
Gideon: You lead by example.
Hotchner: What kind of example is that?
Gideon: [softly] He'll make it.

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Tobias: [after Reid shot him, regarding his second personality] You killed him.
Reid: [sorrowfully] Tobias.
Tobias: I get to see my mom again.
Reid: I'm sorry.

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Hotch: [gently] Reid, you alright?
Reid: [while hugging Hotch] I knew you'd understand. [Reid turns and hugs JJ]
JJ: I am so sorry.
Reid: It's alright, it wasn't your fault.

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Gideon: "From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate." -Socrates

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Mayor Hughes: What do you think is gonna happen if I go to the press and tell them the killer is black?
Morgan: Hey, the best way to stop all this is to find the killer. We just gave you a way to do that.
Mayor Hughes: By telling everybody to look for an anonymous black man? They're gonna say that's racial profiling.
Gideon: It's not racial profiling. Racial profiling is targeting suspects because of their race. We gave you a complete profile which, includes race.
Mayor Hughes: Look, the point is I-I've never even heard of a black serial killer and neither will the African-Americans in this community already upset by what's been happening here.
Hotchner: You can believe in black serial killers or not but the fact is, they do exist and it's only a matter of time before he kills another girl.

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Morgan: [to Reid] You all right?
[Reid doesn’t move.]
Morgan: Reid.
Reid: Hmm?
Morgan: I said, are you all right?
Reid: I'm fine. [glances behind him] Thanks for broadcasting it.
Morgan: Hey, talk to me. Whatever you say to me in confidence is between us, you know that right?
Reid: I don't have anything to tell you.
Morgan: Reid, listen to me. What you went through out there nobody expects you to re- [Reid interrupts]
Reid: I can still do my job alright? I'm not gonna freak out.
Morgan: You think I don't know that?
Reid: Its the crime scene photos.
Morgan: Crime scene photos?
Reid: The dead girls in the leaves.
Morgan: Reid, we've seen worse.
Reid: I know, I know we've seen worse but for the first time I know, I look at them and, I look at them and I know what they were thinking what they were feeling like right before...
Morgan: [Morgan nods] It's called empathy... and that's a good thing.
Reid: [Reid appears troubled] It's not, I mean it's got me all messed it. I don't know how to focus. I can't do my job as well. [Reid pauses] So, what do I do?
Morgan: You use it. Let it make you a better profiler, a better person.
Reid: [Reid seems relieved] Better person.

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Reid: “The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." -Cicero

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Gideon: "Our life is made by the death of others." -Leonardo da Vinci

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Garcia: Are you lonely in the Lone Star state? And are you wearing chaps?
Morgan: Only in your dreams, Garcia
Garcia: Oh, not necessarily. I have Photoshop.

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Morgan: Garcia, I had better never find any Photoshopped pictures of me on your computer.
Garcia: Oh trust me my vision, you will never FIND them.

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JJ: How do we find a man who's trapped inside his head?

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Hotchner: He's reliving the worst moment of his life, he's got to be terrified.
Reid: Yeah.

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Hotchner: [construction work in the background] What's that?
JJ: [with mouth full] One of the detectives' wives made us cookies.
Emily: Wow, homemade cookies!?
JJ: Yeah I guess that's what they mean by 'southern hospitality'.
Reid: What are you saying?
Emily: 'Southern Hospitality'.
Reid: [runs over to window and shuts it] How can anyone hear with all this work going on?

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Hotchner: "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." -Thomas Paine

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Gideon: Robert Kennedy once said, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."

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Garcia: What was the thing that Jack the Ripper took from one of his victims, besides, well, you know, her life?
Emily: Oh, uh...
Garcia: Mmm. Tick, tock, tick, tock.
Emily: I don't know.
Garcia: A kidney. How horrifyingly fantastic is that?
Emily: Mmhmm, and are you going anywhere with this?
Garcia: Just that I found an unsolved murder that happened four months ago in Galveston, Texas, with the same MO - the victim missing that very organ. I amaze myself.
Emily: Yeah, me too. Great work.

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Ethan: My music makes me happy. It doesn't take a profiler to see that you're not.
Reid: It's not easy. And it's not - I ... don't think you'd believe some of the things that I've seen.
Ethan: John Coltrane. He was a genius too. Died of cancer. But most people think it was the booze and the heroin that did him in.
Reid: What are you trying to say?
Ethan: You look like hell.
Reid: I'm fine...
Ethan: Come on man, I'm a jazz musician in New Orleans, I know what it looks like when someone's not well. It's maybe the one time I can tell you something you don't already know. [points at Reid's drink] It may make you forget, but it won't make it go away. And if I can tell... You're surrounded by some of the best minds in the world. If you think they don't notice, well... For a genius, that's just dumb.

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JJ: You're the best ever.
Garcia: Awww... And you're the most perceptive!

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Reid: I missed that plane on purpose.
Gideon: I know.
Reid: I'm struggling.
Gideon: Well... anybody who's been through what you've been through recently... would.
Reid: This is all I was groomed for. I never even ... I never even considered another option.
Gideon: Now you're questioning whether or not you're strong enough to be here?
Reid: Yeah.
Gideon: I have been playing at this job in one way or another for almost 30 years. I've felt lost. I've felt great. I have felt scared, sick, and insane. I don't know, I guess the day this job stops gnawing at your soul... and your hands, your hands stop feeling cold, maybe that's the time to leave.
Reid: I guess I just needed to figure out if I could step away from this job.
Gideon: And?
Reid: I'll never miss another plane again.

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Hotchner: "The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul." -John Calvin.

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