I'm sure you can appreciate that girls of that age have vivid imaginations and people of the Jewish faith even more so.

Murray

Sometimes, Laszlo, there are words spoken between people that are to be left private.

Moore [to Kreizler]

I'm not entirely insensitive to the hidden currents between people.

Roosevelt [to Sara]

What's gotten into [Mary]?

Cyrus [to Stevie]

People aren't ready for this new, high-falutin' form of investigation. They just want this son of a bitch caught. It would scare the people if they found out that an alienist could figure this out before their police department could.

Morgan [to Roosevelt]

No one deserves it more.

Moore [to Kreizler]

Adam Drury didn't want his parents' house. Nobody did. I don't blame them. It's full of ghosts.

Eliza [to Sara]

Weaver: Theodore sure has a way of falling up.
Kreizler: Falling up?
Weaver: There are some men who have a way about them, and even when they fail, they succeed.

Marcus: Do you think we'll see any buffalo in North Dakota?
Lucius: If they haven't all been killed.
Marcus: How about Indians?
Lucius: If they haven't all been killed.

Early: I seen what was done to them.
Sara: And what was done to them?
Early: Butchered. Like hogs.

Stop it! Stop! We ain't gonna find no one like this.

Stevie [to Moore and Kreizler]

Don't worry, Chief. He won't be found. I took care of it.

Connor [to Byrnes]

The Alienist Quotes

Moore: I'm not a reporter. I'm an illustrator.
Conner: Then that's two good reasons for you not to be going up there.

John: What can't possibly wait, Stevie?
Stevie: He said he needs you.