Temperance Brennan quotes from Bones

Anything of value yet?

Brennan

We're cataloging injuries. I thought you would be with Booth.

Questioning people isn't really my thing. Most of the time I just want to beat them until they tell me what I want to hear.

Brennan

I know, it gets frustrating, and hitting can quite often be effective.

Clark

You both work with the Justice Department?

Brennan

Yes.

Clark

Ironic.

Brennan

Welton cheated on you?

That's why I left

Brennan

Does that bother you?

Angela

Sweetie, how many times do I have to tell you that, most people don't like to be cheated on?

The only people who don't mind are just given up..

Angela

..Or are very very rational [looking at Brennan, Cam realized Angela's reference about Brennan] and are above those archaic notions of monogamy [Brennan nods a little]

Right, yes, of course, I'm not..quite..evolved..enough.

Angela

He does have a terrific ass

Brennan

Oh, perhaps that's why you're always making him leave [smiles] [Angela smirks and nods]

Brennan

No lions?

Hodgins

Not in the whole park.

Booth

There are tigers. How much difference can there be between lion urine and tiger urine?

Brennan

There are no stripes in lion urine.

Angela

Celibacy is a lot like fasting.

Brennan

So you've become sexually anorexic?

Angela

At first you're out of sorts and agitated, and then you sort of..push through to a kind of clarity.

Brennan

Have you reached clarity?

Angela

No, I'm still at the agitated and horny stage.

Hodgins

To eternity, to glory, to the future. [scoffs]

Brennan

You disapprove of the Collar Institute?

Hodgins

Up and forward are only two directions. Science should look in all directions. You taught me that.

Brennan

I did?

Hodgins

Every day.

Brennan

Thank you.

Booth

You know what? You're the only smart person I really like.

Brennan

Thank you!

Brennan

You said I have a creepy mode.

Booth

I apologize, okay? I wasn't in my element.

Brennan

Every element is your element.

Booth

That's not true. We've just got to stop hanging out with geniuses, because you're going to figure out that I'm really stupid.

Brennan

What? Don't worry about that. I figured out a long time ago how stupid you are.

Booth

Hmm.

Brennan

What I just said is true and yet it really sounded wrong. What I should say is I don't care how stupid you are... That's not any better?

Booth

No. No. Not at all. That's not even relevant.

Brennan

There is intelligence, which I have, and Mr. Nigel-Murray.

Vincent

Thank you.

Brennan

And Sweets, even though his is so misdirected as to be meaningless.

Booth

Right.

Sweets

Wow, backhand full of knuckles with that compliment.

Brennan

And Hodgins, and Angela not so much, but she's very talented.

Angela

Thank you, very much.

Brennan

You're welcome. But then there's another quality, which is the ability to use intelligence. That is what you have.

Booth

Thanks, Bones.

Wendell

What happened to your measuring tape?

Brennan

I don't know. Missing. There was a Post-It note from the Egyptology Department.

Brennan

I know intellectually jealousy is absurd, but I see that it's real for people... I even experience it myself.

Booth

So what are you jealous of?

Brennan

Angela. Hodgins. Cam. You.

Booth

Why?

Brennan

Because you all want to lose yourself in another person. You believe that love is transcendent and eternal... I want to believe that, too.

Booth

Hey, you will... I promise. Someday you will.

The remains were found in the possession of a Norwegian Black Metal Band.

Brennan

[looking at Clark] What's Black Metal?

Clark

I don't know, it's Norwegian, that's a whole different kind of black.

Wyatt

Might I offer a word of advice regarding young Dr. Sweets?

Booth

Might I try to stop you.

Brennan

Why do we need advice about Sweets?

Booth

We don't. Sweets is just fine.

Wyatt

He most definitely is not fine. I've read his book.

Brennan

Wait, did he say something mean about us?

Wyatt

On the contrary. You might as well know that he lost both his adoptive parents just before he came to work for your de facto crime fighting unit.

Booth

What are we, the land of misfit toys?

Wyatt

He's a good lad, Sweets, but this book he's writing, he's using it as the vehicle to get what he actually wants. Which is a family.

Brennan

So he imprinted on us like a baby duck?

Booth

Are you okay, Bones?

Brennan

Yeah, I'm fine. Here. [Places Booth's handkerchief back in his pocket, then looks to Sweets] Why are you nodding?

Sweets

Nothing. Just Wyatt made an observation about you two and I think I just saw what he saw.

Brennan

Norway?

We don't have enough crucified corpses of our own, now the Vikings are sending them?

Clark

The annual murder rate in Norway is 0.7.

Brennan

Less than one murder a year.

In that case, they should solve the ones they have or they'll never get any practice.

Booth

Ok, let's shut it down guys, come on! [walks in showing his badge] FBI! Let's go! [shows the guitarist his badge]

Brennan

[in shock] OH!!!

Wyatt

[sternly to Booth] Yes, now if you recall, it was shooting inanimate objects that had you brought to me for therapy in the first place.

Booth

I thought it was a justifiable shooting.

Brennan

I... agree!

Booth

She agrees. See?

[hesitantly] You gonna put your gun down?

Booth

Don't rush me, ok? [wipes his badge on guitarist's pants] I'm thinkin'!