- Captain James Deakins: Well, it's nice to see kids studying the classics.
- Detective Alexandra Eames: And learning all the wrong lessons.
- Frankie Marino: Everything has always been the same.
- Detective Robert Goren: How do you mean?
- Frankie Marino: You can't lose another life than the one you're living now, or live another one than the one you're losing.The longest life is the same as the shortest.
- Detective Alexandra Eames: What's he talking about?
- Detective Robert Goren: The longest life is the same as the shortest.I know this.
- Frankie Marino: Some things are rushing into existence.Others out of it.
- Detective Robert Goren: Did you read this, Frankie?
- Frankie Marino: Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed...
- Detective Robert Goren: Glimpsed once, already carried past us and is gone. Yeah.That's Marcus Aurelius.The dictates of a warrior.
- Jojo Rios: Don't act as if you're going to live 10,000 years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it's in your power, be good.