Temperance Brennan Quotes

Dr. Temperance Brennan: Are you gonna arrest me for assault?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: From what I saw, purely self-defense.

Nothing in this universe happens just once. Infinity goes in both directions. There is no unique event, no singular moment.

Please press the thumbs up button. I find imbeciles amusing."

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Debris embedded in the remains suggests an explosion.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: So does that giant hole in the wall.

We're not blue fish.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: You're amazing, you know that?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Yes.

Dr. Temperance Brennan: There's a phrase in ancient Greek burned into the back of the vault door.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, what's it say?
Dr. Temperance Brennan: I don't know, it's in ancient Greek.

Temperance Brennan: Are you aware that turkeys do a dance when they are reunited with a person they recognize?
Seeley Booth: Dance? That's great, Bones, but I guarantee you that they don't dance as good as they taste.

I've noticed that very few people are scary once they've been poked in the eye.

Dr. Camille Saroyan: Are you pregnant?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No, I'm not.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why are you looking at me?

Dr. Camille Saroyan: Can I offer you a little insight into Booth's little brother?
Dr. Clark Edison: Oh God, why am I always standing in precisely the wrong place?
Dr. Temperance Brennan: I didn't have sex with him, Cam.
Angela Montenegro: Didn't have sex with who?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Jared Booth.
Angela Montenegro: Good.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Good? Why good?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Because... because...
Angela Montenegro: Because he's Booth's little brother. And it would just be a creepy way to have sex with a Booth without having sex with the real Booth.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Kudos Angela. I would not have had the guts to say that out loud.

Wendell Bray: Still I mean you crying, I would've loved to have seen that.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why?
Angela Montenegro: Sort of like an eclipse. It doesn't happen that often.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well Booth took a picture of me, but since I have a picture of him cooking an omlete naked, he agreed never to show it to anyone.
Wendell Bray: Smart move.
Angela Montenegro: What? I'm sorry. Naked? Wow! Okay, listen. I am your best friend, honey, so - I think I should take a peek at that.

Angela Montenegro: Hey, how is the honeymoon going?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Very well, thank you. We've been enjoying sex very much
Angela Montenegro: Good, good, I am glad you're taking some time off! Don't worry about Christine either by the way. Her an Michael Vincent are getting along great
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Thank you for taking care of her, Angela
Angela Montenegro: Yeah, anything to help you take a vacation...
Angela Montenegro: in what looks like a morgue?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: This is Dr. Letitia Perez, the coroner here at the Buenos Aires morgue. She'll be assisting me in this investigation
Angela Montenegro: Hi, hi, it's nice to meet you!
Angela Montenegro: HELP!
Dr. Leticia Perez: I am not assisting Dr. Brennan, she is consulting for me
Angela Montenegro: Hm, good luck with that!
Dr. Jack Hodgins: What's going on?
Angela Montenegro: Look at this!
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Dr Brennan, you're on your honeymoon! Why are you in a morgue?
Dr. Jack Hodgins: That's not romantic!

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Based on the large ovoid obturator foramen, the victim was a male. The fine texture of the pubic surfaces indicates an age range of mid-to-late 30s.
Wendell Bray: The parabolic dental arch suggests Caucasian.
Angela Montenegro: Yeah, and the giant metal plate in his head suggests a cyborg.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: When the FBI gets stuck, we call in the squints.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Squints?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: You know, you squint at things.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Oh, you mean people with high IQ's and basic reasoning skill?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah.

Dr. Temperance Brennan: Do you realize when we go to trial he could use the insanity defense.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: The guy is nuts.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Yes, but is he nuts because he got a brain disease from eating human flesh, or was he already nuts the first time he ate flesh, or did he just lick his fingers after surgery?

Agent Pickering: Didn't I see you on television this morning, Dr. Brennan?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: How could I possibly know what you watched on television?

Dr. Temperance Brennan: Are Rangers afraid of SEALs?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: What? Come on, Bones. No.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Rangers aren't afraid of anybody. All right?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: SEALs are pretty good though.

Lisa Supac: It's 10 years or nothing. I can only work with what I'm given, and the forensic work on this was not good enough.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: What?
Lisa Supac: You were fooled by fake dental records, you baked some spam.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: What did you want us to do?
Lisa Supac: Your jobs.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hey!
Dr. Camille Saroyan: No, Ms. Supac, you want us to do your job. My people gave you all the evidence you need to fry Turko with any reasonable jury.
Lisa Supac: Forensically...
Dr. Camille Saroyan: We gave you everything you needed to arrest Turko.
Lisa Supac: Arrest is not a conviction.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: We definitely gave you enough to reject his plea bargain and indict him in the wrongful death of a Senator.
Lisa Supac: Indictment is not a conviction.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: You accept that plea bargain and the investigation stops.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Indict him. Give us time to get you what you need.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: If you accept this plea bargain, you don't deserve to be a Federal Prosecutor.
Lisa Supac: Dr. Saroyan!
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Yeah, it's scary. The whole country'll be watching the trial and you don't want to go in with less than a sure thing. But you put my people on the stand as expert witnesses and that's a sure thing.
Dr. Temperance Brennan, Dr. Jack Hodgins, Angela Montenegro: Not Zack.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: You can tell the story of what happened using the evidence these people provided, and if you any ability as a prosecutor you'll win the case.
Lisa Supac: Are you finished?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: No, Ms. Supac. In the future when you have problems with my team, you'll register them with me, in private, not by grand standing in a public forum.

Lisa Supac: It's 10 years or nothing. I can only work with what I'm given, and the forensic work on this was not good enough.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: What?
Lisa Supac: You were fooled by fake dental records, you baked some spam.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: What did you want us to do?
Lisa Supac: Your jobs.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hey!
Dr. Camille Saroyan: No, Ms. Supac, you want us to do your job. My people gave you all the evidence you need to fry Turko with any reasonable jury.
Lisa Supac: Forensically...
Dr. Camille Saroyan: We gave you everything you needed to arrest Turko.
Lisa Supac: Arrest is not a conviction.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: We definitely gave you enough to reject his plea bargain and indict him in the wrongful death of a Senator.
Lisa Supac: Indictment is not a conviction.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: You accept that plea bargain and the investigation stops.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Indict him. Give us time to get you what you need.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: If you accept this plea bargain, you don't deserve to be a Federal Prosecutor.
Lisa Supac: Dr. Saroyan!
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Yeah, it's scary. The whole country'll be watching the trial and you don't want to go in with less than a sure thing. But you put my people on the stand as expert witnesses and that's a sure thing.
Dr. Temperance Brennan, Dr. Jack Hodgins, Angela Montenegro: Not Zack.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: You can tell the story of what happened using the evidence these people provided, and if you any ability as a prosecutor you'll win the case.
Lisa Supac: Are you finished?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: No, Ms. Supac. In the future when you have problems with my team, you'll register them with me, in private, not by grand standing in a public forum.

Dr. Temperance Brennan: Oh my god! I completely forgot you can't be here, Booth. You're a degenerate gambler.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Former gambler, okay? Not degenerate. I've been through the program, okay? And you know, he's on the move!
Dr. Temperance Brennan: What if you get a sudden urge to gamble while you're here? It's like sending an alcoholic to a distillery. Do you need to sit down?

Dr. Temperance Brennan: If we're less than 4 feet below the surface, this should blow us out.
Dr. Jack Hodgins: And if we're more than 4 feet below the surface?
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Then the concussion will turn our brains to jelly.
Dr. Jack Hodgins: Oh, good, then we can run for Congress. So it's a win-win.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Zack, place some garlic around the remains and chant the Hmong ritual for the preservation of souls.
Zack Addy: Really?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: This is going to be a long case.

Dr. Temperance Brennan: I wish you wouldn't keep letting me hug you when I get scared.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hey, when I get scared, I'll hug *you*. We'll call it even.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: [after Bones pulls out her gun] You know, I could have the Bureau pull your license.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Yeah, and I could assign Zack as your forensic Anthropologist.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I slept with Sully last night.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: I thought you already...
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. Last night.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, well, it's really none of my business.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Except that we're partners.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, there's that.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: And you told me about your socks.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, sex, socks, they're pretty much the same word.

Dr. Temperance Brennan: Yes. This is Dr. Brennan at the Jeffersonian. I just received a call from Agent Booth that he's being held at
Dr. Temperance Brennan: the Purdue Airfield in Oakville, Virginia. Send back up. I'm going in.
Angela Montenegro: You just lied your ass off to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Dr. Jack Hodgins: That is so hot.

FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth: Here we are, all of us, basically alone, separate creatures, just circling each other, all searching for that slightest hint of a real connection. Some look in the wrong places, some they just give up hope because in their mind they're thinking "Oh there's nobody out there for me," but all of us, we keep trying over and over again. Why? Because every once in a while... every once in a while, two people meet and there's that spark, and yes, Bones, he's handsome and she's beautiful and maybe that's all they see at first, but making love... making love... that's when two people become one.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: It is scientifically impossible for two objects to occupy the same space.
FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, but what's important is we try. And when we do it right, we get close.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: To what? Breaking the laws of physics?
FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, Bones - a miracle.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: And I'm changing my password.
FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth: Daisy?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: How did you know?
FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth: It's your second favorite flower. I know you, Bones. Try a planet.
FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth: JUPITER!

Ray Porter: How stupid do you think I am?
Dr. Temperance Brennan: At the moment, very, very stupid.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It was like kissing my brother.
Caroline Julian: You sure must like your brother.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: She does.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You're a smart girl. Why didn't you wear a condom?
Justine Berry: I do... most of the time.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You know what I made a mistake. She is not a smart girl. This is a terrible university.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: Tax shelter? Exactly how loaded are you?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well *that* is an offensive way to phrase the question, but... quite loaded. I'm betting a seven figure advance for my next book.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Seven figures? Wow! Without the decimal point?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: The publisher makes considerably more.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: What's the first of those seven figures?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: A prime number. What do you do with your money?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Use it for food, rent.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Hey, break down the door.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: It hurts my shoulder when I break down the door.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You think I don't recognize an experiment when I see one? You experimented on us!
Dr. Lance Sweets: Beg you pardon?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Not telling me Booth was alive, you wanted to quantify our reactions for your research. You took advantage of us. Booth and I agreed to let you observe us. We did not agree to be used as lab rats. So you better cut it out!
Dr. Lance Sweets: Dr. Brennan why are you talking so fast?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Because if Booth hears why you did what you did, he'd beat you up.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Don't you think that would be an overly aggressive act?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Not at all. So you better not do it again!

Special Agent Seeley Booth: [Seeing Bones wearing glasses] Right. What I want you to do is take off your glasses, shake out your hair and say "Mr. Booth, do you know what the penalty is for an overdue book?"
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Why?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Never mind.

Dr. Lance Sweets: Um, can I offer a piece of advice?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well that's why we called you, Sweets.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Don't try too hard to be their friends. Act like you're more interested in each other than any of them, all right? They will come to you.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Okay, thanks Sweets.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: So, uh, sex right?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: ...Oh good idea.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Okay.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Okay, well, I think what we need to do is get a syncopated rhythm going that takes advantage of the natural frequency of the springs.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Are you this spontaneous during real sex?

Angela Montenegro: Listen to me Brennan. Somebody you love is buried alive! You're allowed to save them no matter how irrational.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I don't love Booth.
Angela Montenegro: Yes you do. So do I. So do all of us. Just take my advice and hand over the evidence and get Booth.

Chet Newcomb: It was an accident?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No, he was
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: What's the sensitive way to say murdered?
Chet Newcomb: Murdered?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sorry, but when you're ready, we'd like to ask you a few questions about your brother's...
Chet Newcomb: Murder.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: We're sorry for your loss.

Dr. Camille Saroyan: We know people through our feelings, Dr. Breenan. You trust Booth because of what you feel.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. I trust Booth because of past actions.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: And faith in the future. I'm sorry but feelings are important, even to you.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: Look Bones, you can't go around telling everybody what's on your mind even though it's the truth. Okay? What if we were going out, right? And you were, you know, taking forever to get ready. You come out in this dress, and I told you I didn't like it. What are you gonna do?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'd reevaluate. Change or ignore you.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Of course you would Bones. Good answer.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Sweets... has scars on his back. Old one.
Dr. Gordon Wyatt: Really?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: What kind of scars?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Like he'd been whipped.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Whipped?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I saw them.
Dr. Gordon Wyatt: That explains his near obsession with your childhood trauma.

Ken Nakamura: Most of the FBI Agents showed up and started telling us how to handle our organized crime problem. Booth said nothing. Two, three days, just listening.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: He was quiet? That
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: that does not sound like Booth.
Ken Nakamura: Then he asked a question. He asked "How would you gentlemen handle our organized crime problem?" He was respectful.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That is the basis of your friendship?
Ken Nakamura: That and the situation incited by a gallon of Sake on a police boat at Uruaga Harbor at dawn.

Well, they gave me medication. So I feel how I imagine people of average intelligence feel, all the time.

Dr. Clark Edison: Well, is it all right if I get a drink of water, boss? You know, uh, it's awful hot out there, and them tools is mighty heavy.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Of course you can get water. Why are you talking like that?
Dr. Clark Edison: Never mind. I'm going.

Parker Booth: Couldn't you be his girlfriend?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Buddy, you're gonna have to quit that.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That would be inappropriate.
Parker Booth: Why?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Because... we work together.
Parker Booth: That's a stupid reason.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: Everything okay there, Bones? I know when there's something wrong with you. Something's wrong, right? What can I do to help?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Angela and I had a fight.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Nothing I can do to help!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You want to hear about it?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: No.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Why not?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why? Because her and Angela are best friends. And Bones is gonna want me to take her side and agree that Angela was wrong. And then you know, the two of them are going to make up and then they're going to get mad at me. So no thank you.

Dr. Gordon Wyatt: Sometimes you have to help people against their wishes.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I can't think of anything I wouldn't do to help him.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: You know, I won't say anything about the scream, if you don't say anything about the gun.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Those terms are satisfactory.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Right.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: And if he was killed by two gunmen, then the government lied. They covered it up.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Throughout history, governments have lied with impunity to other governments and to their own citizens. Booth, does - does this have anything to do with the fact that your ancestor was a - a famous assasin?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Bones...
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: John Wilkes Booth, who killed President Lincoln.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: You promised you would never mention that. You said that to me.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You told me not to. I never promised. I promise now. I promise now!

Dr. Jack Hodgins: Do you know what Vincent Nigel-Murray is? He's a genius.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Yes. So are we all, except for Angela.
Angela Montenegro: Oh right. Yet who do

Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'm the gambler. I believe in giving this a chance. Look, I want to give this a shot.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You mean us? No. The FBI won't let us work together.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Don't do that! That is no reason.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No. No.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You - you thought you were protecting me. But you're the one who needs protecting.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Protection from what?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: From me. I don't have your kind of open heart.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: She's easily as pretty as I am. I mean... using me as a standard.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Bones, you are the standard.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Andrew is not as handsome as you. Using you as a standard. He is, however, taller. Catherine isn't as smart as I am.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, I'm not as smart as Hacker.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well, you once said he's a doofus.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: He is a doofus, smart doofus.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I just think - maybe I've lost my advantage because of all the people I'm involved with, all the relationships. They complicate logical thought.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: You don't mean that.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Could we please just work?

Special Agent Seeley Booth: Listen Bones, you gotta be really careful in that Indonesian jungle, okay?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Booth, in a week, you're going to a war zone. Please don't be a hero. Please just... don't be you.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I find it anomalous that you would leave her since you believe so emphatically in the mythic powers of love.
Gary Nesbitt: Do you understand what she's saying?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Just nod.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I find it anomalous that you would leave her since you believe so emphatically in the mythic powers of love.
Gary Nesbitt: Do you understand what she's saying?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Just nod.

Terror: You know, you're real bad with a gun and a badge, but you won't always be on duty.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: No. I don't know what you're saying. What don't you spell it out for me.
Terror: I mean, watch your back.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Oh no... You - you shouldn't threaten Agent Booth. He can be very male.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: [Booth removes his coat and gun. And gives them to Bones] I don't like walking round looking over my shoulder. So what do you say we do this right now.

We see big stars, tiny atoms, too, because that is what scientists do! We get the facts, and say what's true, because that is what scientists do! We use our minds, embrace what's new, because that is what scientists do!

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: For smart people like Hannah and me, not being jazzed is physically painful.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Whoa. Whoa. You're saying that Hannah does extra work because she's bored at home?
Dr. Lance Sweets: ...No. No.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: I-I'm an exciting guy. I, for example, I'm making dinner for her tonight - with wine.
Dr. Lance Sweets: You just decided that now, didn't you?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: If you're not the cause of her ennui, then it stands to reason you cannot make her happy. It's standard first order logic.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I got the signal, Booth. I don't want to have any regrets.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Um, I'm with someone, Bones. And Hannah - she's not a consolation prize. I love her.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but those are the facts.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: ...I understand. I missed my chance. My whole world turned upside down. I can adjust.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, it means, Bones, that you know, you can love a lot of people in this world, but there's only one person you love the most.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: But how do you know which person you love the most when you're confused by chemical messages travelling throughout your limbic system?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: You just do.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: ...What if you let that person get away?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: That person's not going anywhere.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: I mean you like evidence. All right, Bones. Well, here's the evidence. The evidence is that there's something wrong here. Now, I - I fell in love with a woman. I had a kid. She doesn't want to marry me. And - the next woman, she's...
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Me.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah! And now- I mean, what is it with women who don't want what I'm offering here?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Booth...
Special Agent Seeley Booth: No. Just, you know what - drink. Drink. I'm just really- I'm just mad. I'm just really mad at all of you. I'm just mad, okay? So you want to know how this is going to work? Okay, this is how this is going to work. Me and you are partners that's what we do. Me and you we're partners. And I love that. I think that's great. And we're good people that catch bad people, right? And - and we argue. We go back-and-forth. We're partners and sometimes after we solve the case, we come here and celebrate. That's what we do, we celebrate. So as far as I can see, that's what happens next. Are you okay with that?... Great caus you know, if you are, you stay here and you have a drink with me, all right? Maybe we have a little small talk, a little chit chat. If not, well, you can leave, there's the door. And tomorrow, uh, I'll find you another FBI guy.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Those are my only choices?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah. Those are you only choices.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: ...Then I'll have a drink

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'm... quite strong.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, well, you've always been strong.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You know the difference between stength and imperviousness, right?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, not if you're going to get all scientific on me.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well, a substance that is impervious to damage doesn't need to be strong.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Hmm.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: When you and I met. I was an impervious substance. Now I'm a strong substance.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: I think I know what you mean.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: A time could come when you aren't angry any more and I'm strong enough to risk losing the last of my imperviosness. Maybe then we could try to be together.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: But come on, Bones. He's hurting, all right? Whether you're right or wrong, you levelled the guy.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: He's a grown man.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sometimes that makes it hurt more. What makes us human, Bones, is we feel compassion and regret.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why is this so important to you, Booth?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Because I know the kind of person you are. And I think you should let others in on the secret too.

Dr. Lance Sweets: You want the girl to cooperate, we need to make sure she feels comfortable - and secure.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I know what I'm doing.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Do you remember being in Foster Care?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I wasn't a potential murder suspect.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Nevertheless, you must remember how you were treated... How often did they even bother to learn your name? Every situation was way more frightening than it had to be because some supervisor was in a rush, right? I know I never wanted to cooperate. And I'm sure you didn't either.

Vincent Nigel-Murray: I... ple-please don't. Just don't make me go. I-I don't want to go. I love -it's been lovely. Being here with - with you.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No! You can stay here as long as you like, Vincent. You're my favorite everyone knows that, right Booth?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: No, I don't Bones.

Dr. Temperance Brennan: They looked so happy.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, yeah. They had a baby.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: Their whole lives have changed. You'd think they'd be a little more apprehensive.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, you know. Having a baby... that's a good thing.
Dr. Temperance Brennan: You really think that?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, it's a great thing. Why... what?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Oh, come on Bones. Look the baby... the baby's fine, it's healthy. They had a healthy baby. Alright? They love each other. This is the happiest day of their lives. Okay?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: What?
Dr. Temperance Brennan: I'm...
Dr. Temperance Brennan: I'm pregnant. You're the father.

Dr. Camille Saroyan: Oh God! Get it out of here! Oh God, I hate snakes!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Dr. Hodgins...
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Somebody kill that thing!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You can come back to the lab. We discovered the warm place where the python was hiding.
Finn Abernathy: I gotta say, ma'am, this is the best damn job ever!

Special Agent Seeley Booth: You really want to help? I got a great idea. What do you say we talk about something else? Let's talk about you.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: My breasts are very sore. Would you mind if I spent the evening naked?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sure, yeah that's fine with me. No complaints here, that's great. See, now, isn't this a better conversation?

Temperance Brennan: You shouldn't hit people. You should use your words. That's what all the books say.
Chad Fergus: Are you serious?
Seeley Booth: Well you know, she's a new mom. Come on.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Can I start buying you things now?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: No. You can't. But, hey, I'll tell you what. You can start buying Christine stuff.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I know you'd like a new grill.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Christine would *love* a new grill. She would love it.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Baby girls need grills.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: They need grills. And a new tool set. What is this?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It's quinoa.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Queen wha...
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Quinoa. It's a grain.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: You know, with a new grill, we could cook steaksijuui

Finn Abernathy: What kind of trouble could a kid in high school get into that ends up with him stuffed in a suitcase and tossed off a bridge?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: As a former juvenile delinquent, I'd assume you have a string of bad decisions behind you.
Finn Abernathy: Yes, m'am.
Finn Abernathy: Just wish all of them were behind me.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: How is Mr. Viziri?
Dr. Ivan Jacobs: His vitals actually seem more stable. Clearly, the herbs helped. I came to apologize.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No need. I understand that when someone is blindly subservient to institutional authority their judgment is frequently compromised.
Dr. Ivan Jacobs: That was an eloquent insult.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I thought so.

Aldo Clemens: Booth loves you.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Booth told you that?
Aldo Clemens: He confessed it to me. Not being married is a sin to him. I'm not sure a non-believer can understand that kind of sacrifice.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I wanted to marry him.
Aldo Clemens: Not as much as he wants to marry you.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You want me to have faith in him?
Aldo Clemens: You know, I've seen Booth do some terrible and, and difficult things. But, only if he was compelled by a very good reason.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: From now on when one of us has been shot at, has to tell the other one right away
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Okay, unless one of us is already dead
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Right!

Dr. Oliver Wells: I get it, keep your shirt on!
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Dr. Wells, you are an intern! Please treat Dr. Brennan with the respect she's due!
Dr. Oliver Wells: I thought this was a meritocracy?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It is!
Dr. Oliver Wells: Then it was the respect she deserved.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: No, no, it wasn't, and since she is...
Dr. Oliver Wells: Please don't say: superior.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Boss, but I will say superior if I want, because I am also your superior. Do you understand?

Aldo Clemens: And now Temperance, will you be speaking from the heart as well?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No, I will be speaking from my mouth

Special Agent Seeley Booth: You should not read off that thing! News should come from the newspaper!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You also feel we should go to work on a horse?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Ha, you know, technology is not all about improvement! Me personally, I like to feel the newspaper in my hands
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I have access to over 100 newspapers and wire services. Not to mention millions of websites and blogs
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Pff, right, blogs! I mean, some guy in his underwear living in his mom's basement giving his take on the economy!

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It's the court's obligation to protect us.
Priest: God will look out for us.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That, of course is absurd. We have as much of a chance of Apollo or Santa to protect us as whatever anthropomorphized fantasy figure you revere. I'm putting my faith in a marshal with a gun, any day.

Special Agent Seeley Booth: Wow, that's an awful coincidence
Professor Leon Watters: The concept of coincidences is erroneous! It's possible to define a formulation of patterned interaction between within the universe
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'm sorry! Is that some kind of confession?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No, just a fact

Wendell Bray: The heart-shaped pelvic inlet suggests the gender, so...
Dr. Camille Saroyan: I don't think we need bones to let us know that the victim was a male
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: We have no other way, Dr. Saroyan
Dr. Jack Hodgins: I think we do
Angela Montenegro: That mangled piece of meat is his...?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Yeah!
Wendell Bray: Breaking my arm seem like nothing now

I play chess, too. Not like you, of course. I've been trying to teach Booth, but he keeps referring to the Knights as horseys.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Uniform repeated injuries. They're all signs of a seizure.
Colin Fisher: Oh my God. You're right.
Colin Fisher: Well, I feel inadequate.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: You work with me, Mr. Fisher. I'd have thought you'd be used to that by now.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Did Carolyn give you all the information you needed on Ibrahim?
Angela Montenegro: Yeah, I hope so. I mean there is always possible the CIA is holding something back. I sound like Hodgins, huh?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well, in this case that would be prudent!

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Progress is slower than I'd prefer. I had a new intern, forced upon me by the Secretary of State
Special Agent Seeley Booth: You mean the real Secretary of State?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Yes!
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Wow
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Dr. Fuentes is a defector from Cuba, brilliant but arrogant!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Hmm, brilliance and arrogant! Must be real tuff to work with!
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It is
Special Agent Seeley Booth: I... I know this

Angela Montenegro: Look at this picture she posted.
Dr. Lance Sweets: What, she Photoshopped herself into that?
Angela Montenegro: It's crazy, right?
Dr. Lance Sweets: Uh, a grown woman obsessed with a giant, orange phallic

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: After Mr. Abernathy and I finished separating the remains that were mixed in with Daniel Barr's, I realized that we're missing parts of the victim.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: How? He's ash.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Based on his size, after cremation, his remains should weigh 3 kilograms. We received only 2.31 kilograms.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: So you're missing almost 2 pounds of the victim. Why can't you just say "2 pounds" instead of getting all metricky?

Dr. Camille Saroyan: Oh, it's all yours, Mr. Vaziri
Dr. Jack Hodgins: Is it me or did it just get totally awkward in here?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: It's probably the perplexing nature of the remains
Angela Montenegro: Eh, no! Actually, I think it was the "Mr. Vaziri". What's going on here?
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Uh, a murder case. So if we could focus on the task at hand. The skull is all yours, Mr... Arastoo
Arastoo Vaziri: Thank you
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Is something happening that I don't understand?
Angela Montenegro: Yes!

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I'd posit that the chipped teeth suggest that a tube or funnel was forced down the victim's throat.
Colin Fisher: To fill him up with alcohol. Bastard.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I beg your pardon?
Dr. Jack Hodgins: Fisher's just starting to realize that murderers are bad.

FBI Special Agent James Aubrey: There was a report of a gunshot, I knew he was here, so...
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Where is he?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Sweets!
Special Agent Seeley Booth: What happened?
FBI Special Agent James Aubrey: I don't know. I don't know. The paramedics are on their way.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sweets, just relax. You're gonna be okay.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Booth?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Yeah, I'm right here. Don't move.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: He's not shot! I thought you said there were gunshots!
Dr. Lance Sweets: That was me, actually.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: You?
Dr. Lance Sweets: I shot him.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: He was hit in the nasion, the philtrum and the sternum, Booth.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Looks like massive internal trauma. He's bleeding out, Booth.
Dr. Lance Sweets: Tell Daisy not to worry. She worries too much.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Of course. Don't talk now, Sweets.
Dr. Lance Sweets: I fought... I fought back. You'd be proud.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sweets, don't talk. Why are you talking all the time? Bones said don't talk.
Dr. Lance Sweets: He... he got the document.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Doesn't matter right now. You're gonna be fine.
Dr. Lance Sweets: You, too. The world is a lot better than you think it is. It's...
Special Agent Seeley Booth: N-No. No, no. You-you can start talking now, Sweets. Come on.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: He's gone, Booth. He's gone.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: No, no. No, no. No. Come on, Sweets. Hey! Hey, hey, hey. Sweets! Sweets.

But in a real sense. He's here. Sweets is a part of us. Our lives... who we all are at this moment, have been shaped by our relationships with Sweets. Well, each of us is like a delicate equation. And Sweets was the variable without which we wouldn't be who we are. I might not have married Booth. Or had Christine. Daisy certainly wouldn't be carrying his child. We are all who we are because we knew Sweets. So, I don't need a... a God to praise him or the universe he sprang from, because I loved him. I used to try and explain love, define it as the secretion of... chemicals and hormones. But I believe now, remembering Sweets, seeing what he left us, that love cannot be explained by... science or religion. It's beyond the mind, beyond reason. What I do know loving Sweets... loving each other, that's what makes life worthwhile. Right now... I don't need to know more than that. Which is embarrassing coming from an extremely intelligent, fact-based person.

Perhaps I can walk with you and you can squeeze my hand. I did that when I was in labor and I took great comfort in knowing that Booth was in great pain too.

Jack Hodgins: Doing all right there, Dr. B? You look like something is bothering you
Camille Saroyan: Which is reasonable, reconsidering she's about to stick her hands in the body stew
Temperance Brennan: Well, I feel as if imbalance of the serotonin levels have affected my neurotransmitters. Probably caused by the fact that today is Sweets' birthday. Whatever tool was used to fell the tree, caused significant damage to the skull
Jack Hodgins: Oh, man! Sweets
Camille Saroyan: He would have been what?
Temperance Brennan: 30
Jack Hodgins: He didn't even make it to 30?

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Oh my God!
Special Agent Seeley Booth: What? You get bit?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No, it's my book! In the clearance section.

Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Oh my God!
Special Agent Seeley Booth: What? You get bit?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: No, it's my book! In the clearance section.

Roger Flender: Excuse me, agent Booth?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Mr. Flender, what are you doing here?
Roger Flender: Thomas Saltz came in to work today very upset. He said that you guys brought him in.
Special Agent Seeley Booth: I don't have time for your lectures on how good your men are.
Roger Flender: That's not why I'm here. Like you, I believe that Alex Rockwell is innocent.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Do you have any information important to the case?
Roger Flender: No, but you could bring me in, officially as a suspect.

Jessica Warren: Do you ever miss anything?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Well. No one's perfect, Ms. Warren.
Jessica Warren: Very humble.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: But, I come very close.

Daisy Wick: It won't be the Jeffersonian without Dr. Brennan here.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Of course, it will, Ms. Wick. The name of this institution has nothing to do with my employment agreement. And as for this department, it has always been my wish to leave it in the hands of a new, well-trained, brilliant team of forensic anthropologists.
Daisy Wick: Oh-ohh.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Now, let's see if I made a mistake endowing you with those qualities. What have you found?

Wendell Bray: So, Dr. Brennan, is being back at the Jeffersonian is just like riding a bike?
Temperance Brennan: Eh, conducting a forensic examination bears no resemblance to riding a bicycle, though both are activities I greatly enjoy

Seeley Booth: you have a tendency to say the exact wrong thing at the worst possible moment
Temperance Brennan: And then other times, I say exactly what is needed. Like this morning when I skillfully negotiated sex, not just once but twice.
Caroline Julian: God bless you, child. I couldn't have proven my point better myself.
Seeley Booth: Know what, it was three times.

Seeley Booth: I told Christine the Tooth Fairy's gonna be paying a visit.
Temperance Brennan: Actually, I'd prefer it if we didn't do that.
Seeley Booth: Why?
Temperance Brennan: It's a modern pastiche of minor myths which completely lack thought or substance.
Seeley Booth: It's tradition. There's no harm in that
Temperance Brennan: On the contrary, I don't want to teach our daughter that it is okay for a stranger to break into her room and steal discarded body parts.

Seeley Booth: There's a new sheriff in town, and his name is Special Agent Seeley Booth. And you're under arrest for the murder of Stanley Belridge.
Temperance Brennan: And I'm not Wanda. I'm Dr. Temperance Brennan. I'm also the mother of his children.

Seeley Booth: I don't want to miss that whore sauce
Temperance Brennan: Will you please stop referring to the puttanesca as "whore sauce
Seeley Booth: I'm sorry but does "puttanesca" not mean "in the style of the whore" in Italian?
Temperance Brennan: Yeah, it does, and every time I make it, I regret having told you that.

Karen Walters: We just love going viral
Temperance Brennan: So do infectious diseases

Temperance Brennan: You hear that? It's the cocking of a Colt .45 pointed directly at your head. Now lower the knife.
Seeley Booth: Thanks, Bones, I appreciate it. You know, you're lucky my partner showed up, or you would have had a bullet right in your chest. Where'd you get the gun?
Temperance Brennan: I don't have one, but I do have these handy sound files. I considered going with the pumped shotgun, but that seemed like a bit much.
Seeley Booth: Got to be kidding me

Seeley Booth: Lightning-quick reflexes. Just like her dad, huh? Fast like a flea
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Aw, you remembered

Seeley Booth: I read the short story that Parker gave you and he might be a better writer than you
Temperance Brennan: Well, that's an opinion I'm certain my fans would disagree with, but yes, Parker is a talented writer

Seeley Booth: I read the short story that Parker gave you and he might be a better writer than you
Temperance Brennan: Well, that's an opinion I'm certain my fans would disagree with, but yes, Parker is a talented writer

Seeley Booth: Everyone knows that laughter's the best medicine.
Temperance Brennan: No, penicillin is the best medicine. It's saved countless millions from infections.
Seeley Booth: Okay, now what? You're being funny?
Temperance Brennan: No, I'm being serious.
Seeley Booth: You'd rather take penicillin over laughter? That's like saying that you'd take mould over the Stooges.
Temperance Brennan: Penicillin is not a mould. It's derived from fungi.
Seeley Booth: Well, okay, well, the Stooges are fun guys.

Alex Duffy: Given all you've already accomplished in your life, what is it you'd like to be when you grow up, Dr. Brennan?
Temperance Brennan: That's easy. I'd like to be the mother of the world's greatest car salesperson.

Seeley Booth: You know what, I'm gonna prove it to you. Pull over and let me drive
Temperance Brennan: Great, excellent idea. Let's risk the lives of both of our children's parents so you can feel manly and virile and young
Seeley Booth: I am manly, virile and young.
Temperance Brennan: And I'm driving.

Francis Byers: Is this where he died?
Seeley Booth: No, this is where he went to heaven.
Temperance Brennan: My husband is euphemistically referring to sex By the sheer quantity...
Seeley Booth: You're gonna need a new cleaning service.

Max Keenan: You were a little girl. We were in the car - driving - the whole family - your mom and Russ were with us. The leaves were turning -changing. And it started to drizzle. It was so quiet - you could hear the raindrops falling on the windshield. And you were in the back doing that thing you do with my ear.
Temperance Brennan: Rubbing your earlobes.
Max Keenan: It always put me at ease when I was driving. In all those years I was gone, whenever I missed you I just thought back to the rides in the car.

Angela Montenegro: How are you?
Temperance Brennan: Everyone keeps asking me that. I don't know how to answer that question

Temperance Brennan: Dr. Hodgins, you're here earlier than usual
Jack Hodgins: What? Oh, wait! Don't tell me it's morning already. Angela is going to kill me!

Temperance Brennan: The victim jumped 30 feet off an overpass and landed on a passing car
Seeley Booth: That's gonna leave a dent
Temperance Brennan: I imagine it would, given the gravitational acceleration rate of 9.8 meter per...
Seeley Booth: Ah, come on, Bones, it's too early for math. Too early
Temperance Brennan: It's never too early for math
Seeley Booth: Everything before 12 is too early, everything after 12 is too late
Temperance Brennan: That leaves no time for math
Seeley Booth: I don't want math
Temperance Brennan: I want math!