Criminal Minds Quotes
Hotch: Thomas Kempis wrote, "Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility; for it thinks all things are lawful for itself, and all things are possible."
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JJ: [Speaking to Billy Flynn over the radio system] But I am a mother. And I, I know what your mother did to you when you were little. What she was... What-- What she made you watch, what she let men do to you and it makes me so... ...it's just... not fair. And -- and no one, no one can make that better. I wish I could. I do. But if I could somehow go back there and make what was happening to you stop, I could just pick you up, and tell you that all would be okay. That's what moms are supposed to do...They are not supposed to be the cause of your pain; they are supposed to make it go away. They are supposed to hold you and tell you that everything is going to be alright. They are supposed to tell you that thunder is angel's bowling, and that it is okay to be afraid of the dark and that it is not silly to think that there are be monsters in your closet and that it is ok that if you want to climb into bed with them just this once, because it is scary in the room all alone.They are supposed to say that it is okay to be afraid, and not be the thing that you are afraid of. But most importantly, they are supposed to love you no matter what. What happened to you isn't fair, it is not right. But... I am supposed to empathize with you, sympathize, understand. But I can't. That would be a lie. The truth is... I don't understand what you've done. I don't sympathize with you killing people all these years and I especially don't understand you taking Ellie. What I can do, is to tell you what a mother should tell you. That you cant take away your pain by hurting someone else. That it doesn't make all the nights you have been scared and alone any better if you scare someone else the way you are scaring Ellie. What happened to you, it isn't fair, but what you are doing to her isn't fair either. And if anyone should understand what that feels like, it's you. You have the power. You can do what you want to do. But for once, you could choose to use that power to do for
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Morgan: [Confronting Billy Flynn, the UnSub]Shoot me. You know you can't do it. I study you guys for a living. I know more about you than what you know about yourself.
Billy Flynn: Well, you may not be afraid. But they are. [Pointing to the hostages]
Billy Flynn: Well, you may not be afraid. But they are. [Pointing to the hostages]
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JJ: "A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another, the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another, it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden." The Buddha
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JJ: Jean Racine said, "A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."
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Prentiss: No...
Morgan: Wait a minute, I thought Hotch was supposed to...
JJ: It's above his paygrade; Strauss' too.
Reid: They can't just take you away
Prentiss: So we do nothing?
JJ: It's done
Morgan: It can't be that simple
JJ: It is
Morgan: This job is hard enough. What are they trying to do, bury us?
Prentiss: You're too good. That's the problem
Rossi: It's true. You're on everybody's wishlist. Our loss is somebody else's gain.
Reid: They can't just take you away...
Morgan: Wait a minute, I thought Hotch was supposed to...
JJ: It's above his paygrade; Strauss' too.
Reid: They can't just take you away
Prentiss: So we do nothing?
JJ: It's done
Morgan: It can't be that simple
JJ: It is
Morgan: This job is hard enough. What are they trying to do, bury us?
Prentiss: You're too good. That's the problem
Rossi: It's true. You're on everybody's wishlist. Our loss is somebody else's gain.
Reid: They can't just take you away...
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JJ: You're still here?
Garcia: Figured you'd get to me eventually. (pauses) You're leaving? (pauses) You could have told me. I would have done something. I would have made it impossible for them to let you go. I would have put something in your file.
JJ: It's not up to me. Or Hotch.
Garcia: Don't they understand that we're a family? That that's why this works is because we're a family? Do they even care?
JJ: I don't know
Garcia: I can't believe... Okay. No. That's.... I'm supposed to say that this is a great opportunity. Which it is. I don't know the way this place works without you. You're like the glue around here. Who's gonna make us feel safe?
JJ: There's plenty of big strong men around.
Garcia: See that, right there? Your total ignorance to how awesome you are? It's one of the 5000 things I love about you.
JJ: I'm still going to be in the city. Okay? More than normal probably.
Garcia: Sure. Then we'll make a plan. Breakfast every Tuesday. Then life gets in the way. And what if I only see you on birthdays and holidays?
JJ: I won't let that happen.
Garcia: Ok. It better not because I know where to find you. You wanna walk out together?
JJ: There's, there's one more thing that I have to do before I go. (hugs each other for one last time)
Garcia: Figured you'd get to me eventually. (pauses) You're leaving? (pauses) You could have told me. I would have done something. I would have made it impossible for them to let you go. I would have put something in your file.
JJ: It's not up to me. Or Hotch.
Garcia: Don't they understand that we're a family? That that's why this works is because we're a family? Do they even care?
JJ: I don't know
Garcia: I can't believe... Okay. No. That's.... I'm supposed to say that this is a great opportunity. Which it is. I don't know the way this place works without you. You're like the glue around here. Who's gonna make us feel safe?
JJ: There's plenty of big strong men around.
Garcia: See that, right there? Your total ignorance to how awesome you are? It's one of the 5000 things I love about you.
JJ: I'm still going to be in the city. Okay? More than normal probably.
Garcia: Sure. Then we'll make a plan. Breakfast every Tuesday. Then life gets in the way. And what if I only see you on birthdays and holidays?
JJ: I won't let that happen.
Garcia: Ok. It better not because I know where to find you. You wanna walk out together?
JJ: There's, there's one more thing that I have to do before I go. (hugs each other for one last time)
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JJ: I'm thankful for my years spent with this family, for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I'll take the best of them with me and lead by their example wherever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes: this isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. Maybe it's because I look at everything as a lesson or because I don't want to walk around angry. Or maybe it's because I finally understand. There are things we don't want to happen but have to accept; things we don't want to know but have to learn; and people we can't live without but have to let go.
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Rossi: Marcel Proust said, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
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Rossi: Mark Twain said, "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."
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Prentiss: "We all wear masks, and the times comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin." Andre Berthiaume
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Morgan: "All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul." Mahatma Gandhi
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Morgan: "But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." Robert Frost
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Jeremy Sayer: [Holding Knife at Hostage] Have You ever wondered what is under your skin?
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Hotch: Niccolo Machiavelli said “If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared”.
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Hotch: Woah, that is definitely not Spiderman
Jack: He's not a real superhero
Hotch: He's not? Ok, I give up. Who are you supposed to be?
Jack: I'm you, Daddy!
Hotch: Let's go get some candy, my little G-man
Jack: He's not a real superhero
Hotch: He's not? Ok, I give up. Who are you supposed to be?
Jack: I'm you, Daddy!
Hotch: Let's go get some candy, my little G-man
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Hotch: "The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need." Napoleon Bonaparte
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Hotch: "Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." Bernard Malamud
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Garcia: I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that's why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us choose embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. But in the end, it's as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, all of us are forced to face the truth. Ourselves. For me, that day has come.
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Reid: You're here to target a woman but you don't want to attract attention.
Hotch: Well, standing in the middle gawking at passing women is going to attract attention. [sees Reid gawking at passing women] Like you're doing now.
Reid: [snaps out of trance] What's that?
Prentiss: And just like that, [snaps fingers] an IQ of 187 is slashed to 60.
Hotch: Well, standing in the middle gawking at passing women is going to attract attention. [sees Reid gawking at passing women] Like you're doing now.
Reid: [snaps out of trance] What's that?
Prentiss: And just like that, [snaps fingers] an IQ of 187 is slashed to 60.
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Garcia: "Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live." Marilyn Monroe
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Morgan: Ralph Ellison said, "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
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Hotch: Elise Cabot said, "Evil endures a moment's flush, and then leaves but a burnt out shell."
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Hotch: "When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable." writer Madeleine L'Engle
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Rossi: "Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them." writer Oscar Wilde
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Morgan: "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo
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Reid: "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." Mary Wollstonecraft
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Reid: "The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or touched, but just felt by the heart." Helen Keller
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