Criminal Minds (season 6)
Criminal Minds (2005–2020) is an American television show, airing on CBS, about an elite squad of FBI profilers that analyzes the country's most twisted criminal minds and anticipates their next move before they strike again.
The Longest Night [6.01]
[edit]- Jennifer Jareau: "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 [NOTE: This quote is often misattributed to the Buddha, and the earliest match that could be located was in a 1962 book published by Bukkyō Dendō Kyōka titled The Teaching of the Buddha.]
J.J. [6.02]
[edit]- Jennifer Jareau: 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."
Remembrance of Things Past [6.03]
[edit]- David Rossi: Marcel Proust wrote, "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
- David Rossi: Mark Twain wrote, "When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now, and soon I shall be so I cannot remember anything but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it."
Compromising Positions [6.04]
[edit]- Penelope Garcia: Abraham Lincoln said, "Whatever you are, be a good one."
- Emily Prentiss: "We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing our own skin." Andre Berthiaume
Safe Haven [6.05]
[edit]- Derek Morgan: "All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul." Mahatma Gandhi
- Derek Morgan: "But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." Robert Frost
Devil's Night [6.06]
[edit]- Aaron Hotchner: Niccolò Machiavelli said, "If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared."
- Aaron Hotchner: 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."
Middle Man [6.07]
[edit]- Aaron Hotchner: "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
- Aaron Hotchner: "Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go." Bernard Malamud
Reflection of Desire [6.08]
[edit]- Penelope 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
- Penelope Garcia: I believe humanity was born from conflict. Maybe that’s why in all of us lives a dark side. Some of us embrace it. Some have no choice. The rest of us fight it. In the end, it’s as natural as the air we breathe. At some point, we’re forced to face the truth. Ourselves.
Into the Woods [6.09]
[edit]- Derek Morgan: Ralph Ellison said, "I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
- Aaron Hotchner: Elise Cabot said, "Evil endures a moment's flush, and then leaves but a burnt out shell."
What Happens at Home [6.10]
[edit]- Aaron Hotchner: "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
- David Rossi: "Children begin by loving their parents. As they grow older, they judge them. Sometimes they forgive them." Writer Oscar Wilde
25 to Life [6.11]
[edit]- Derek Morgan: "There is no such thing as part freedom." Nelson Mandela
- Derek Morgan: "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo
Corazon [6.12]
[edit]- Spencer Reid: "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks." Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [NOTE: This quote was actually published in A Vindication of the Rights of Men by Shelley's mother, Mary Wollstonecraft, in 1790, seven years before Shelley's birth and Wollstonecraft's death.]
- Spencer Reid: "The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt by the heart." Helen Keller
The Thirteenth Step [6.13]
[edit]- Emily Prentiss: Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, "What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering."
- Emily Prentiss: William Glasser said, "What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today."
Sense Memory [6.14]
[edit]- Derek Morgan: "Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game." Paul Rodriguez
- Emily Prentiss: "Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it." Novelist Vladimir Nabokov
Today I Do [6.15]
[edit]- David Rossi: "It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." Sally Kempton
- Emily Prentiss: "There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder the firm resolve of a determined soul." Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Coda [6.16]
[edit]- Spencer Reid: "Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today." Author James T. McCay
- Emily Prentiss: Come near my team and I will end you.
- Ian Doyle: I don't have a quarrel with them. How long that remains the case depends entirely on you. They're innocent. You're not.
- Emily Prentiss: I was doing my job.
- Ian Doyle: I think you did a little more than that. You took the only thing that mattered to me. So I'm going to take the only thing that matters to you. Your life. [takes out a matchbook with a four leaf clover on the cover and puts it on the table between them] Honoré de Balzac once said, "Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in Providence." Tell me, Emily Prentiss, which do you think you're going to be?
Valhalla [6.17]
[edit]- Emily Prentiss: Lao Tzu said, "When I let go of what I am I become what I might be."
- Emily Prentiss: Journalist Dorothy Dix wrote, "Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets and takes its own punishment in silence."
Lauren [6.18]
[edit]- Emily Prentiss: "The secret to getting away with lying is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even moreso than lying to another." Author Elizabeth Bear
- Jennifer Jareau: Psychoanalyst Walter Langer wrote, "People will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough, people will sooner or later believe it."
With Friends Like These... [6.19]
[edit]- Spencer Reid: Lizette Reese said, "The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out."
- Derek Morgan: Siddharta Buddha said, "It is not his enemy or foe that lures him to evil ways."
Hanley Waters [6.20]
[edit]- Derek Morgan: Poet Antonio Porchia said, "Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists."
The Stranger [6.21]
[edit]- Aaron Hotchner: Stephen King wrote, "Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters."
- Ashley Seaver: "Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events." Adrienne Rich
Out of the Light [6.22]
[edit]- David Rossi: Agathon said, "Of this alone even God is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been."
- Aaron Hotchner: Doménico Cieri Estrada wrote, "Bring the past only if you're going to build from it."
Big Sea [6.23]
[edit]- David Rossi: "The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness." Joseph Conrad
- Derek Morgan: "We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea — whether it is to sail or to watch — we are going back from whence we came." John F. Kennedy
Supply & Demand [6.24]
[edit]- Aaron Hotchner: Thomas Hardy wrote, "And yet to every bad there is a worse."
- David Rossi: "What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do." Aristotle