Along Came a Spider Quotes

  • Alex Cross: To be brutally honest, I think you have a morbid desire to burn in hell.

  • Gary Soneji: Cool beans.

  • [Alex and Jezzie are examining Soneji's handiwork]

    Alex Cross: Wow. Imagine the patience... the dedication...

    Jezzie Flannigan: You sound like an admirer.

    Alex Cross: Well, he's like a spider. I happen to like spiders.

  • Jezzie Flannigan: Would you kill another partner?

    Alex Cross: You're not my partner.

  • [crying]

    Megan Rose: Please, I wanna go home! Please, I wanna go home...

  • Gary Soneji: I am living proof that a mind is a terrible thing.

  • Alex Cross: You do what you are Jezzie.

    Jezzie Flannigan: You mean you are what you do.

    Alex Cross: No, I mean, you do what you are. You're born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you're good at, you don't take for granted. You don't betray it.

    Jezzie Flannigan: What if you do, betray your gift?

    Alex Cross: Then you betray yourself. That's a sad thing.

  • Gary Soneji: They say that when I die, the case will die. They say it will be like a book I close. But the book, it will never close...

  • [first lines]

    Tracie: Tonight was your first night at the club, wasn't it?

    Jim: No. I've been there a few times before.

    Tracie: Really? Well, how come I haven't seen you?

    Jim: I noticed you the first night I walked in. You always stand out.

  • [last lines]

    Megan Rose: Who are you?

    Alex Cross: I'm a policeman. My name is Alex Cross. I'm a friend of your parents.

    Megan Rose: Can you take me to them?

    Alex Cross: Nothing would give me greater pleasure. Could you...

    [she helps him up]

    Alex Cross: Ah, thanks.

  • Jezzie Flannigan: Dr. Cross, Agent Ben Devine. Agent Devine is security systems supervisor.

    Ben Devine: Well, for now. We're going to be thrown to the wolves, as soon as they find Megan Rose dead in a ditch.

    Alex Cross: Now what makes you so sure that's what's going to happen?

    Ben Devine: Me getting fired or the girl in a ditch? Sorry. I'm having a pessimistic day.

  • Vickie: It's time you forgave yourself.

    Alex Cross: Vickie, you know that forgiving yourself is the one thing a person cannot do.

  • Gary Soneji: [about Megan] I envy her. What would life have been like with parents like that?

    Alex Cross: Come on, Gary. Blaming your parents for what you are?

    Gary Soneji: I'm not blaming them, Alex. They've been punished already. I burned down the house while they slept.

Extended Reading
  • Mohammed 2022-04-22 07:01:34

    Xiang Zhuang dances the sword, from Pei Gong to the hitchhiker to commit a crime, to old Morgan's heroic rescue, and finally to a hidden murderer, a small reversal and a low cost production, everything is going well

  • Terrence 2022-02-12 08:02:14

    The plot is tortuous and suspenseful, and there are constant surprises. The most brilliant among the actors is the little girl, who is witty and brave is simply the American version of the little hero Yu Lai and Zhang Ga.