Criminal Minds · Quotes by reader
Quotes Read by Reid 20 quotations in Criminal Minds
Reid (Spencer Reid, played by Matthew Gray Gubler) reads the opening or closing quotation 20 times across 14 episodes of Criminal Minds, from “Derailed” (2005) to “The Uncanny Valley” (2010).
- Season 1 · Episode 9 · Closing quote
Derailed
“The question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or the others crazy?”
- Season 2 · Episode 1 · Closing quote
The Fisher King: Part 2
“It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.”
- Season 2 · Episode 11 · Opening quote
Sex, Birth, Death
“Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the shadow.”
- Season 2 · Episode 11 · Closing quote
Sex, Birth, Death
“Between the desire and the spasm, between the potency and the existence, between the essence and the descent, falls the shadow. This is the way the world ends.”
- Season 2 · Episode 16 · Closing quote
Fear and Loathing
“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.”
- Season 3 · Episode 10 · Opening quote
True Night
“Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.”
- Season 3 · Episode 16 · Opening quote
Elephant's Memory
“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
- Season 3 · Episode 16 · Closing quote
Elephant's Memory
“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except the memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
- Season 4 · Episode 3 · Opening quote
Minimal Loss
“To follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”
- Season 4 · Episode 6 · Closing quote
The Instincts
“I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.”
- Season 4 · Episode 7 · Opening quote
Memoriam
“What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.”
- Season 4 · Episode 7 · Closing quote
Memoriam
“There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.”
- Season 4 · Episode 12 · Opening quote
Soul Mates
“No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips. Betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.”
- Season 4 · Episode 20 · Opening quote
Conflicted
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything, but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always gotten there first, and is waiting for it.”
- Season 4 · Episode 20 · Closing quote
Conflicted
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real, too. They live inside us. And sometimes, they win.”
- Season 4 · Episode 24 · Opening quote
Amplification
“It will become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and will become boils breaking out with sores on man and beast through all the land of Egypt.”
- Season 4 · Episode 24 · Closing quote
Amplification
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.”
- Season 5 · Episode 7 · Opening quote
The Performer
“In the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons.”
- Season 5 · Episode 12 · Opening quote
The Uncanny Valley
“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”
- Season 5 · Episode 12 · Closing quote
The Uncanny Valley
“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”