"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive." -- Josephine Harper

Rossi

If you have the opportunity to do something you love, you should absolutely explore it.

Lewis [to Garcia]

Prentiss [to J.J.] Don't worry. If given the chance, I'm making history.

J.J.: You're going to be the next director of the FBI.
Prentiss: That remains a definite maybe.

“We serial killers are your sons, we are your husbands, we are everywhere. And there will be more of your children dead tomorrow.” -- Ted Bundy

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Prentiss: This way never going to end any other way.
Rossi: I know.

Garcia: Full disclosure: Fear of change is forcing me to eat frozen dessert foods.

Simmons: Both [the widows] swear their husbands wouldn't frequent prostitutes.
Lewis: Well, they never do until they do.

Unsub: There's a Scottish proverb: "They talk of my drinking but never my thirst."

This is personal no matter how you slice it -- person the expression.

Rossi

I forget we invited the fun police. Ignore [Reid].

Garcia

Deputy Director Barbour: You've got that deer-in-the-headlights look, Agent Prentiss.
Prentiss: It's a lot to consider.

Criminal Minds Quotes

Morgan: (discussing Viper) We need to bait him with someone he sees as a challenge.
Reid: To study his style up close and personal is going to take someone that he's already attracted to.
(all eyes are on Emily)
Prentiss: Ahh, oh, this is really gonna suck.

Garcia: Sir, does this guy stuff actually work on real, breathing girls?
Hotchner: (confused) Why are you asking me?
Garcia: I abhor the whole chicks-dig-jerks thing.
Hotchner: Well, fortunately, Garcia, you are one of the exceptions.
Garcia: Be still my bespeckled heart. So are you, sir.
Hotchner: (smiling) Thanks.