Criminal Minds · Quotes by reader
Quotes Read by Prentiss 18 quotations in Criminal Minds
Prentiss (Emily Prentiss, played by Paget Brewster) reads the opening or closing quotation 18 times across 15 episodes of Criminal Minds, from “Honor Among Thieves” (2007) to “Rite of Passage” (2010).
- Season 2 · Episode 20 · Opening quote
Honor Among Thieves
“There can be no good without evil.”
- Season 2 · Episode 20 · Closing quote
Honor Among Thieves
“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
- Season 2 · Episode 21 · Closing quote
Open Season
“Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.”
- Season 3 · Episode 4 · Opening quote
Children of the Dark
“In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological, resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
- Season 3 · Episode 15 · Closing quote
A Higher Power
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love, and to be greater than our suffering.”
- Season 3 · Episode 18 · Opening quote
The Crossing
“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.”
- Season 4 · Episode 3 · Closing quote
Minimal Loss
“Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it.”
- Season 4 · Episode 5 · Opening quote
Catching Out
“Plenty sits still. Hunger is a wanderer.”
- Season 4 · Episode 5 · Closing quote
Catching Out
“Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea, and the East and West, the wander-thirst that will not let me be.”
- Season 4 · Episode 9 · Opening quote
52 Pickup
“The minute people fall in love, they become liars.”
- Season 4 · Episode 13 · Opening quote
Bloodline
“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues of human society are created, strengthened and maintained.”
- Season 4 · Episode 17 · Opening quote
Demonology
“He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.”
- Season 5 · Episode 7 · Closing quote
The Performer
“Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.”
- Season 5 · Episode 11 · Opening quote
Retaliation
“Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.”
- Season 5 · Episode 11 · Closing quote
Retaliation
“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.”
- Season 5 · Episode 14 · Closing quote
Parasite
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”
- Season 5 · Episode 17 · Opening quote
Solitary Man
“We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
- Season 5 · Episode 19 · Opening quote
Rite of Passage
“A lion’s work hours are only when he’s hungry; once he’s satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.”