Temperance Brennan quotes from Bones

Wendell

If you don't mind me asking, Dr. B, why do you keep staring at the X-ray?

Brennan

Because I'm suffering the nagging certainty that my eyes are seeing something which my brain refuses to process.

Brennan

What happened? You're no longer in the Jeffersonian, all my interns--gone.

What happened is you put your own desires ahead of everything else when you left.

Brennan

Are you angry with me?

Yes, I am angry, Dr. Brennan. We had a great thing going. You just … you let it fall apart.

Brennan

(about Hannah) Is it serious between you?

Booth

Serious as a heart attack.

Brennan

Heart attacks are very serious.

Booth

Yes, they are. Very serious.

So what was it like to meet Hannah?

Brennan

Oh, she seems very pleasant and attractive. Her face fits comfortably within the Golden Ratio.

Hodgins

So you guys did math together?

Brennan

No, the Golden Ratio is a formula that determines beauty; 1 to 1.618. For instance, the width of the mouth to the width of the cheeks --

Angela

So she's hot?

Clark

I see some particulates here, Dr. Hodgins, you know, if we still care about finding what happened to these poor people.

I just assumed that when you guys got back from your trip you'd be a real couple.

Brennan

We were never a couple.

Clark

Dr. Saroyan, you assured me that you would try to keep this workplace professional.

And I will, Dr. Edison.

Angela

No, no. You were a couple, you just weren't having sex. Were you jealous?

Brennan

Of course not. I'm happy for Booth. Why would I be jealous?

Clark

Because it's obvious you and Agent Booth were attracted to each other! I mean, a blind man could see that. I just couldn't understand why you two didn't rip each other's clothes off. I mean, just get all butt naked and -- [stops in horror when he realizes what he's saying]

Hannah

This is fascinating.

Hodgins

Who's that?

Hannah.

Hodgins

[runs to his speaker] Hey, uh, hi! It's nice to meet you. I'm, uh, Hodgins, Dr. Hodgins. I am a big fan. I just read the piece where you stuck it to CENTCOM in 2009.

Hannah

[smiles] Thanks.

Hodgins

Hey, maybe while you're here, you can find out why every time there's a big story [Booth looks embarrassed] and I mean like an earthquake or government corruption, there's always some celebrity story that takes focus.

Booth

[getting annoyed] Hodgins!

Hodgins

[continues on] The BP oil spill, Lindsay Lohan goes to jail and the country takes their eye off the ball.

Booth

Hod-gins!

Hannah

Media is used to distract us all the time.

Booth

[discreetly to Hannah] You're taking him seriously???

Hannah

Michael Jackson's funeral is on 24-hours a day and nobody finds out about the coup in Honduras. Smells fishy to me.

Hodgins

I love this woman.

Brennan

The tox screen showed copious amounts of alcohol, over the counter stimulants, and men's beauty products.

Booth

I'm sorry, men's what now?

Brennan

Hairspray, hair gel, tanning spray and some sort of aerosolized perfume.

Booth

Cologne. Men wear cologne.

Brennan

You don't.

Booth

Well that's because it smells like perfume.

Hannah

I was thinking I wanted to get him something when I moved in; a present, and since you know him so well --

Brennan

A telephone! Get him a telephone!

Hannah

I was thinking something a little more personal.

Brennan

A vintage rotary phone. Booth loves them and hasn't been able to find the right one.

Hannah

Really?

Brennan

Yes! He's been looking. Booth says that's what a phone is supposed to be: indestructible and heavy enough to knock someone out.

Hannah

[laughs] Yeah, that sounds like Seeley.

Brennan

His grandfather kept his rotary phone until it fell apart. Booth loved the feel of the bakelite, the tick-tick-tick of the dial as it turned. He says the mechanics make it human.

Hannah

And lucky for me, he has a partner who knows him so well.

Brennan

Booth and I have become close, by necessity. Congratulations again. I'm happy for you both.

Hannah

Thanks.

Brennan

One thing, Hannah. I want you to be sure about this.

Hannah

The phone?

Brennan

No, although I understand the misunderstanding. No, about you and Booth moving in together. Booth will give himself to you completely, and it would be very painful for him if you aren't as serious about the relationship as he is.

Hannah

I am, but thanks, though. You're a good friend, Temperance. Seeley is very lucky.

This rib was broken before this man was killed. Amazing!

Brennan

This injury occurred perhaps a week before the victim was killed.

Whatever made him die was not the same thing that broke his rib.

Brennan

There were two injuries: one that broke off a piece of the rib --

And another approximately a week later which propelled the bone into this heart and killed him dead.

Brennan

Killed him dead is redundant.

But it's clear, and what do we say about clarity? It's a barbarity that clarity is a rarity!

Brennan

That's very true.

Brennan

It was an accident. The rib fracture broke off in the fight at the pool hall. [to the bounty hunter] You had no idea that your beanbag gun would kill him.

Booth

Bones, what are you, a defense lawyer now?

Brennan

[quoting Dr. Jude] "A kind mind is a fine mind."

Booth

She cut off his head! That wasn't an accident.

Brennan

I have no rebuttal for that statement.

Angela

Sweetie, you go on this show and millions of little girls are going to look at you and say to themselves, I can be like her, a scientist, or an astronaut or a brain surgeon, blah-de-blah. You know, shoot for the stars. All that.

Brennan

Even with the "blah-de-blah" it seems very important to you.

Angela

Yeah. If I have a daughter I'm going to name her Temperance.

Brennan

You are?

Angela

[nods] I mean, we won't call her that. It's awful. Maybe it'll be her middle name but I want her to love you.

Brennan

Well, you love me.

Angela

Yes but not everyone is as willing to look as hard for your inner child as I am. And this kid is half Hodgins, remember?

Brennan

Dr. Hodgins, would you come over here and be a corpse?

Hodgins

Yeah.

Angela

[to Brennan] Sweetie, y-you do mean pretend to be a corpse, right? 'Cause the way you're holding that knife, you're looking a little slashery.

Brennan

Your fluidity makes it appear that you have no bones, and I am an expert on bones, so I find that very impressive.

Well, thank you. I take that as a great compliment while being intimidated by law enforcement.

Brennan

You stayed up all night?

Angela

Yes.

Brennan

Is that good for the baby?

Angela

Well, what he doesn't know, doesn't hurt him, right?

Sweets

Anacostia? That's a really tough part of town.

Booth

Not compared to downtown Kabul, it's not.

Brennan

Or the surface of Venus which is covered by clouds of sulfuric acid and hundreds of active mega volcanoes.

Brennan

[incredulously] What? We were talking about tough neighborhoods.

Brennan

[knocks on Booth's apartment door] Booth? [knocks again] Are you there?

Booth

No, I'm in South Beach working on my tan. [opens door]

Brennan

You need Sweets to sign your post Afghanistan ready for duty report. Did you forget?

Booth

Me?

Brennan

Well, generally you wear more clothing, and you've been avoiding it for weeks.

Booth

Well, I couldn't sleep. Hannah got up at the crack of dawn. [cracks back]

Brennan

Do you always have this pronounced release of gas in the morning?

Booth

Is it that bad?

Brennan

Synovial gas. That's what the cracking is.

Booth

Synovial gas? What's that mean?

Brennan

Well, there comes a point where a body can't hide all the abuse it's taken.

Booth

What do you mean 'certain point'?

Brennan

Booth, you've been shot, beaten, and jumped out of airplanes. The skeletal damage alone --

Booth

Oh, God. I'm falling apart.

Brennan

You're fine. It's your skeleton that's falling apart.