Criminal Minds · Quotes by reader
Quotes Read by JJ 13 quotations in Criminal Minds
JJ (Jennifer “JJ” Jareau, played by A.J. Cook) reads the opening or closing quotation 13 times across 9 episodes of Criminal Minds, from “North Mammon” (2006) to “Mosley Lane” (2010).
- Season 2 · Episode 7 · Opening quote
North Mammon
“It’s not so important who starts the game, but who finishes it.”
- Season 2 · Episode 7 · Closing quote
North Mammon
“The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate.”
- Season 3 · Episode 11 · Closing quote
Birthright
“A simple child, that lightly draws its breath, and feels its life in every limb, what should it know of death?”
- Season 3 · Episode 17 · Opening quote
In Heat
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.”
- Season 3 · Episode 17 · Closing quote
In Heat
“If we knew each other’s secrets, what comforts we should find.”
- Season 3 · Episode 18 · Closing quote
The Crossing
“A woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”
- Season 4 · Episode 14 · Opening quote
Cold Comfort
“And so, all the night tide, I lay down by the side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride, in the sepulcher there by the sea, in her tomb by the sounding sea.”
- Season 4 · Episode 23 · Closing quote
Roadkill
“The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still, small voice of conscience.”
- Season 5 · Episode 5 · Opening quote
Cradle to Grave
“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.”
- Season 5 · Episode 13 · Opening quote
Risky Business
“Life is a game. Play it. Life is too precious. Do not destroy it.”
- Season 5 · Episode 13 · Closing quote
Risky Business
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.”
- Season 5 · Episode 16 · Opening quote
Mosley Lane
“Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man.”
- Season 5 · Episode 16 · Closing quote
Mosley Lane
“Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without words, and never stops at all.”