- Dana Gaines: [to Reid] I know there's a huge drug problem in the U.S, but it's so different when it's my mom.
- Jennifer Jareau: Whoever did this will be brought to justice.
- Police Chief Steve Gaines: You'd better get to him before I do.
- Emily Prentiss: [opening quote] "My dark secrets are life threatening: pockets of unhappiness set in aspic that build and build"- Sue Townsend
- Penelope Garcia: I think it's the human spirit inside all of us that gives us an enormous capacity to survive. Amanda Lindhout.
- Luke Alvez: Are your ears burning?
- Penelope Garcia: My ears are the same temperature as the rest of me: hot.
- Penelope Garcia: If we live in the land of the free, why are so many people numbing themselves?
- Jennifer Jareau: They're just in a lot of pain, physically, emotionally. Drugs seem like their only solution
- Dr. Spencer Reid: They're not a solution
- Dr. Spencer Reid: I learned about things all the time, juts because I want to. Recently I've been studying up on fungi for no other reason that I love yeasts and molds. I think it's, uh, because... because I... I can relate to them
- Dana Gaines: You relate to mold?
- Dr. Spencer Reid: [laughing] Well, I learned that fungus is mobile but it's only mobile because it grows. And I know with myself that my life seems to get better and I find myself moving to new things as I grow
- Penelope Garcia: Well, this case just went from a slam dunk to... I don't the right analogy, but it just got a whole lot much worse
- Penelope Garcia: [On the phone to Luke] Oh, that sounds like flirting! I don't flirt with you, that's my mission statement. What do you need?
- Penelope Garcia: Oh my gosh! You guys, this might be a record. It's just a little bit after New Year's and we're actually celebrating our MHM tonight. Aren't you excited?
- Matt Simmons: I will be in a minute.
- [Turns to JJ]
- Matt Simmons: What's MHM?
- Jennifer Jareau: Oh, uh, Garcia named them. It's a Missed Holiday Meal
- Penelope Garcia: Or as I like to call them: mm, hmm