Criminal Minds Quotes

JJ: Journalist William D. Tammeus wrote, "You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back."

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Garcia: [when looking at adoption date] Yeah, according to this, blue-eyed, blonde-haired bundles of joy pay top dollar.

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Garcia: [to Reid over speaker] Super skeezy. I've got a spreadsheet from one of them expecting compensation for the baby I'm having.
[Morgan walks in]
Morgan: Something you wanna tell me Garcia?
Garcia: Aw, that's the sad part my prince. The genetically perfect offspring of Penelope Garcia and Derek Morgan wouldn't fetch top dollar.

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Morgan: "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee." Matthew 5: 29

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Morgan: You know you should have waited for backup
Hotch: Would you have?
[Prentiss gives them both weird looks]
Hotch: What?
Prentiss: [smirks] Nothing

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Garcia: [spots Morgan's necklace] Hey, what's that? I haven't seen it before.
Morgan: Penelope, there's a lot of my stuff that you haven't seen before.
Garcia: Wow, you are a tease.

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Morgan: All due respect Ms. Strauss but both of you have trusted me to step in as Unit Chief. I have decided that I don't want Agent Hotchner's office. That's where he belongs.

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Morgan: Woman, you have lost your mind...but you're the best.
Garcia: I completely agree

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Morgan: "Dwell in peace in the home of your own being and the messenger of death will not be able to touch you." Guru Nanak

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Reid: "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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Garcia: Password was Cullen.
JJ: Of course.
Reid: Colan?
JJ: Cullen, the vampire family from Twilight.
Reid: What's Twilight?
JJ: Do you ever read anything other than technical books?
Reid: Not much in English.

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JJ: I am gonna go talk to Tara's BFF before the media requests come in and gets too crazy.
Reid: What's a BFF?

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Prentiss: [referring to a minor celebrity the team suspects of involvement with a recent murder spree] Garcia, can you get us an address?
Detective Kim: That's going to take a little while, celebrities are protected by layers of privacy, it's like finding information on a deeply...
Garcia: [cutting in] 22423 Greenvale Circle Holmby Hills, GPS coordinates are uploading to you now and his name is Paul Davies, by the way.
Prentiss: Run him for a criminal record too.
Garcia: You got it.
Prentiss: Thanks PG.
Detective Kim: Hate to think what she could find out about me.
Prentiss: Oh, I prefer not even to consider it.

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Prentiss: Is he gonna be okay?
Morgan: He's got a gun.

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Prentiss: Writer Cyril Connolly said, "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self."

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Morgan: "Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it's an enemy." Albert Einstein

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Hotchner: "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Friedrich Nietzsche

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Rossi: What's the point of all this Erin? Why?
Strauss: So this never happens again.
Rossi: There is nothing a bureaucrat can do to make sure that something like this never happens again.

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Hotchner: Poet Haniel Long said, "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty."

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Hotchner: W. S. Gilbert wrote, "It's love that makes the world go round." And if that's true, then the world spun a little faster with Haley in it. Haley was my best friend since we were in high school. We certainty had our struggles but, if there's one thing we agreed on unconditionally, it was our love and commitment to our son Jack. Haley's love for Jack was joyous and fierce. That fierceness is why she isn't here today. A mother's love is an unrivaled force of nature and we can all learn much from the way Haley lived her life. Haley's death causes each of us to stop and take stock of our lives, to measure who we are and what we've become. I don't have all those answers for myself, but I know who Haley was. She was the woman who died protecting the child we brought into this world together, and I will make sure that Jack grows up knowing who his mother was and how she loved and protected him, and how much I loved her. If Haley were with us today she would ask us not to mourn her death, but to celebrate her life. She would tell us... she would tell us to love our families unconditionally and to hold them close because in the end they are all that matter. I met Haley at the tryouts of our high school's production of the 'Pirates of Penzance'. I found our copy of the play and I was looking through it the other night, and I came upon a passage that seemed appropriate for this moment. "Oh dry the glistening tear, that dews that marshal cheek, thy loving children hear, in them thy comfort seek, with sympathetic care, their arms around thee creep, for oh they cannot bear, to see their father weep."

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Hotchner: "Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." Oliver Wendell Holmes

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[Prentiss kneels over Joe the UnSub, pinning him to the ground]
Prentiss: Fantasy's over. Is that what you did to them? You hit them to shut them up and then forced them to play along with your sick delusion?
Joe: I love them.
Prentiss: You're finally gonna meet your soul mate Joe, in prison. Only you're not gonna be able to push them around the way you did those women. And when he comes over you in the middle of the night, when you're least expecting it you do me a favor, play along.

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[standing at Haley's grave]
Rossi: I had a feeling I'd find you here. Have you told her yet?
Hotchner: Told her what?
Rossi: That you're coming back to the team, that fighting the bad guys is who you are.
Hotchner: I don't have to tell her, she already knows.

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Rossi: Scars remind us of where we've been; they don't have to dictate where we're going.

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Hotchner: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Prentiss: "Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure." Tacitus

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Schrader: "It's madness for the sheep to talk peace with a wolf." Thomas Fuller

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Morgan: How many shots did you fire?
Emily: Three.
Morgan: You emptied your clip.
Emily: No...I did?

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[after Prentiss gets hit by a truck]
JJ: How are you?
Prentiss: I feel like I got hit by a truck.

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Prentiss: Washington Irving said, "There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and of unspeakable love."

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