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Jennifer Jareau Quotes

Total quotes: 25
“When Garcia can't find a breadcrumb, it's usually because the bread was never baked.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 13: Full-Tilt Boogie
Tagged: Breadcrumbs, Detectives
“Jennifer Jareau: Well, he didn't take their handbags, jewelry or wallets.

Penelope Garcia: No, the only thing missing was their cell phones. Well, that and their heads.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 11: Drive
Tagged: Understatement, Decapitation
“My mother believes that children shouldn't be shielded from the realities of the world. I do! Isn't that why we read them fairy tales in the first place?”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 10: If the Shoe Fits
Tagged: fairy tales, Children
“Jennifer Jareau: Economics, philosophy, political theory. Not exactly breezy, take-to-the-beach reading.

Dr. Spencer Reid: I would, but I don't really like the beach.

Jennifer Jareau: Why is that?

Dr. Spencer Reid: Sandy food, pink skin, limited and unengaging topography, but mostly drug-resistant bacteria spread by seagull feces.

Jennifer Jareau: Sorry, I asked.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 8: The Apprenticeship
Tagged: Economics, Political Theory, Philosophy
“Fire-starting is the first part of what we used to call the homicidal triad. The other two parts are bedwetting and cruelty to animals.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 7: Profiling 101
Tagged: Homicidal Triad, Fire-Starting
“This is my favorite part. This is where you hang yourself with your own tongue. So, please keep talking.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 7: The Company
Tagged: Sarcasm
“Maternal desire is the profound emotional need to mother a baby. This stems from either the tragic loss of her own child, or the inability to have one at all.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 7: I Love You, Tommy Brown
Tagged: Maternity, Motherhood, Maternal Desire
“Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Charm's quite the killer.

Dr. Spencer Reid: So are tears.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 7: Proof
Tagged: charm, Tears, manipulation
“I'm thankful for my years spent with this family, for everything we shared, every chance we had to grow. I'll take the best of them with me and lead by their example wherever I go. A friend told me to be honest with you, so here it goes. This isn't what I want, but I'll take the high road. Maybe it's because I look at everything as a lesson, or because I don't want to walk around angry...or maybe it's because I finally understand. There are things we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 6: JJ
Tagged: Wisdom, Acceptance, goodbye
“You can do what you want to do. But for once, you could choose to use that power to do for Ellie what should have been done for you. You can choose letting her go. You can choose teaching her that, yes, there are monsters and it is okay to be afraid of them, but it is not okay to let them win. And it is not okay to be one.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 6: The Longest Night
Tagged: monsters, Whoever Fights Monsters, Power
“Sheriff Ruiz: Every job has a patron saint. Cops have Saint Jude, doctors have Raphael the Archangel. But if you're a drug dealer or a killer, who do you pray to?


Jennifer Jareau: The saint of death.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Rite of Passage
Tagged: Patron Saints, Saint Jude, Cops, Raphael the Archangel, Drug Dealers, killers
“Sometimes a suicidal person, in the days leading up to the act, will just blur out ‘I love you’ to family. Sort of like a goodbye.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Risky Business
Tagged: Suicide, Last Goodbye, I Love You
“When someone feels trapped in what feels like a hopeless situation, pulling the trigger or swallowing pills or hanging yourself seems like the only way out.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Risky Business
Tagged: Suicide, trapped, hopeless, Pills
“Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Baton Rouge thinks have a white supremacist problem.

Aaron Hotchner: What's your take

Jennifer  'JJ' Jareau: [Surprised] Really

Aaron Hotchner: Yeah, I'd like to hear it.

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: We're dealing with an individual, not a group.

Aaron Hotchner: Why?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: The angry letters. The writer switches pronouns from plural to singular: 'We are a heavily armed militia,' followed by 'I will be forced to take action.'”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 5: Cradle to Grave
Tagged: white supremacists, Baton Rouge, Militia
“I don't know how to do this. I can't stop thinking about Henry. He goes for a walk almost every single day at Potomac Park. What type of mother am I if I don't at least call and tell him to stay home?”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 4: Amplification
Tagged: Motherhood, Protectiveness
“I once dated a guy who washed his car more than he washed his hair.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 4: Roadkill
Tagged: Vanity, Misplaced Priorities
“David Rossi: Why do people want to hear me talk about serial killers? Is it that entertaining?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: There's a public fascination with them.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 4: Zoe's Reprise
Tagged: Serial Killers, voyeurism, fascination
“Jordan Todd: So many cases. How do you determine which ones get priority?


Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Uh...basically murder triage. I look for cases where the threat of losing another life is most imminent.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 4: Memoriam
Tagged: Triage, Murder
“Only a man would waste $50 trying to win back that $3 stuffed animal.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 3: Damaged
Tagged: Misandry, Men Are Dumb
“You do what it takes to protect your family.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 3: Lucky
Tagged: Family, Protectiveness
“Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Bridgewater, Florida. Local girl, Abbey Kelton, nineteen, left her parents' home to go the local junior college. She never came home. Three days later, joggers found her—part of her—in a nearby park.

Emily Prentiss: What did that to her?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Bridgewater's off of I-75, which is often referred to as 'Alligator Alley' for reasons that are now apparent. Everything below the waist had been eaten.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 3: Lucky
Tagged: Alligator Alley, Murder
“Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: [on the phone] Hi. this is Agent Jareau with the F.B.I. and—
[puts phone down]

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: That's the third time I've been hung up on.

David Rossi: Try not saying F.B.I.

Dr. Spencer Reid: Who was that?

Jennifer 'JJ' Jareau: Contact for a local militia newsletter.

Dr. Spencer Reid: Yeah, drop the F.B.I. part.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 3: Identity
Tagged: FBI, Phone Hangups, Militia
“JJ: You are the best ever.


Garcia: Aw, and you're the most perceptive.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 2: Jones
Tagged: Humblebragging, compliments
“Don't tell me what I want and don't want.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 2: Revelations
Tagged: Assertiveness
“[about the incredible Sir Kneighf] Oh god, please tell me you don't have a crush on a fictional character.”
— Jennifer Jareau, Criminal Minds, Season 1: The Fisher King Part
Tagged: fiction, crushes
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