Temperance Brennan quotes from Bones

Booth

What's it going to take?

Brennan

Full participation in the case.

Booth

Fine.

Brennan

Not just lab work. Everything.

Booth

What? You want me to spit in my hand? We're Scully and Mulder.

Brennan

I don't know what that means.

Right away Dr. Brennan.

Booth

He's got no sense of discretion. That kid. Typical squint.

Brennan

I don't know what that means.

Booth

Well when the cops get stuck we bring in people like you. You know, squints. You know to squint at things.

Brennan

Oh you mean people with very high IQs and basic reasoning skills.

Booth

Yeah.

Brennan

Split the difference. Mixed race.

Angela

Lenny Kravitz or Vanessa Williams?

Brennan

I don't know what that means.

A case this big. The director is going to create a special investigation unit and if I line all my ducks up in a row, I can maybe, I can head it up.

Brennan

I don't know what that means, but I think maybe I can be a duck.

Booth

You're not a duck, okay. On this one we stick to the book. Cops on the streets. Squints in the lab.

Brennan

Well in that case, the Jeffersonian will be issuing a press release identifying the girl in the pond.

Booth

If you do that i'm a dead duck.

Brennan

What if Booth is right? What if I'm only good with bones and lousy with people?

Angela

People like you.

Brennan

I don't care if men like me.

Angela

Okay, interesting jump from "people" to "men," but I'm sure it means nothing.

Brennan

I hate psychology. My most meaningful relationships are with dead people.

Booth

Which they won't read because they don’t want to, especially because towards the end Cleo and her parents weren't even speaking.

Brennan

They told you that?

Booth

You know, getting information out of live people is a lot different then getting information out of a pile of bones. You have to offer up something of yourself first.

Brennan

What exactly did you do in the military?

Booth

You see. You see what you did right there Bones? You asked a personal question without offering anything personal in return and since I'm not a skeleton, you get zilch. Sorry.

Booth

Thought I’d find you here. You know, you being a good shot and doing martial arts, it’s all your way of dealing. Who knows better than you how fragile life can be?

Brennan

Maybe an Army Ranger sniper who became an FBI homicide investigator?

Booth

Ah, you looked me up, huh.

Zack

If Smokey here had access to the president, why would he attack a café?

Brennan

"Smokey"?

Zack

It's how I deal with stress.

Hodgins

Targeting everyday places causes panic. People stay home, the economy is crippled. It's Terrorism 101, man.

Booth

We're dealing with someone here who devalues an entire culture: terrorizing people by using God to justify mass murder.

Brennan

You're making it personal. That doesn't help.

Booth

It is personal, Bones. All of us die a little bit on one like this.

Booth

Okay, what's so funny?

Brennan

I just never figured you being in a relationship.

Booth

Why? Do you think something's wrong with me?

Brennan

Not wrong. You just have alpha male attributes usually associated with a solitary existence.

Booth

What, me? You're solitary.

Brennan

No, no, I'm private.

Angela

Look, I... I know you needed help out there... at the crime scene. And I wanted to... but...

Brennan

It's okay. You see it. I don't anymore. I don't know what's worse.

Hodgins

[after Angela tells them she talked to Booth's girlfriend.] She's spying for you?

Brennan

No. No!

Zack

If you have nothing in common, it's difficult to sublimate intense sexual attraction.

Brennan

[glares at Zack] Okay, stop.

Angela

He is there for the taking, honey.

Booth

Okay, I couldn't get his medical records.

Booth

What?

Brennan

[quickly] Nothing.

Brennan

If you see him will you shoot?

Booth

Well, he might not have the bomb.

Brennan

You don't believe that.

Booth

I'm not taking out a target, Bones, unless I'm sure.

Brennan

Is that how you make it easier? Calling him a target?

Booth

[turns and glares at Brennan] You know, you picked a really odd time to have this conversation.

Booth

Ah, you know, I'm glad we had that little chat about being nice to the locals.

Brennan

I don't like sheriffs. They are elected into office, which means their goal is being re-elected, not finding the truth.

Booth

I don't... I don't like people who think they're better than other people.

Brennan

Some people are better than other people.

Booth

Uh, you know what you said right there, that is so un-American. All men are created equal; either you believe that or you don't.

Brennan

Some people are smarter than others; there's no use being offended by the fact. What are we going to tell Nestor's parents?

Booth

We tell them that their son was found dead. "We're looking into it. Sorry for your loss," and we are.

Brennan

What?

Booth

Sorry for their loss. It's sad. Try to remember that.

Brennan

Uh, I'm not a sociopath.

Booth

You're bad with people, okay. No use being offended by the fact.