Person of Interest quotes

John Reese

I don't have that much of an appetite.

Kara Stanton

Mark was like you at first. So was I when I woke up half-dead in a hospital in Dongsheng. You can't control anything around you so you fight back in whatever little ways you can, like refusing to eat. But in time, you accept your fate like Mark here and have a hamburger.

John Reese

I'm just not that hungry, Kara. But when I do fight back, you'll know it.

Kara Stanton

Something funny, Mark?

Mark Snow

You're both damaged goods. Having the two of you take each other out wasn't just efficient. It was poetic.

Mark Snow

You were right, Kara, about me being dead. I'm gonna be great at it.

Harold Finch

Have you been under any excess stress?

John Reese

You mean besides being locked in an 11'x13' at Rikers and wearing a bomb vest around Manhattan?

John Reese

Finch, how do we keep up with a guy who breaks all the rules?

I guess I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of guy. I only have one suit. A good suit is like the perfect woman. Once you find the right one nothing else will do.

So, strong handsome guy your age working as a bellhop? Must have made a wrong turn somewhere.

John Reese

Yeah. I...uh stopped counting a while back.

Joss Carter

Yeah, it's just a machine right, I mean how smart can it be?

Harold Finch

[Sarcastically] Exactly. Just a machine.

Sameen Shaw

Cole, I think I've been made. My 3, good looking guy in a suit.

Sameen Shaw

One of the things I left out of my file: I kind of enjoy this sort of thing.

Root

I am so glad you said that. I do too.

You probably think I made a devil's bargain. And maybe I have. But the program is the reason we haven't had another major attack. If the public knew about what we do, we'd lose that ability.

Sameen Shaw

And Aquino?

Again, a regrettable decision, but a necessary one. No one life is above the safety of millions of Americans. That's the ugly math that I have to deal with every day. You of all people should understand that.

Harold Finch

The world looks like it did ten years ago, but underneath, it's become very strange indeed. An invisible struggle has begun.

Harold Finch

You think she'll call us a cab?

Harold Finch

I've been a certified member of The National Storm Chasers and Spotters Association for over 10 years.

John Reese

[As Marshall Jennings] Body armor? I don't think we'll be taking heavy fire with this group.

Look Jennings, I spend most of my 9 to 5 tethered to a desk. I've questioned a few embezzlers and some identity thieves. We're about to walk into a room with a killer.

John Reese

And I'll be standing right behind you.

Harold Finch

You could never be me because I save lives. You take them.

No, I live those lives better than real people ever could. I follow them and watch them waste what they have. I do those identities justice. The things I've seen. The lives I've lived. One day I'll stop, when I find the person I'm meant to be.

Harold Finch

What? People like you don't stop. You can rationalize it however you like. But you hurt people because you like it. Because you're sick! You're maladjusted and you need help.