Temperance Brennan quotes from Bones

Brennan

Based on your robust frame, muscular build, and symmetrical features, you could make a good income as an exotic dancer.

Wendell

Well, then I wasted a bunch of money on grad school.

Booth

I'm just angry, that's all it is. [he and Brennan sit down on a bench] I just feel like him.

Brennan

Who?

Booth

My dad. I feel like my dad. You know, he would blame her for everything. My mom would apologize and he would just stare at her.

Brennan

You are not your father.

Booth

[looks at Brennan, sarcastically] Really? Because, you know, I grew up in a household of violence and hatred. Look at me now. I look for that everyday – murder, cruelty. [sighs]

Brennan

Everyday you try to stop it. Everyday you prove what a good man you are.

Booth

Why didn't I stop her? Why didn't I stop my own mom?

Brennan

'Cause it's difficult. Isn't that what you said about my dad? How long did it take me to forgive him? You think I still don't get angry?

Booth

Maybe it's just simpler this way, Bones.

Brennan

Is that what your religion says?

Booth

[sarcastically] Really? You wanna bring that into this conversation now?

Brennan

The Jesus myth is all about forgiveness, isn't it?

Booth

It's not a myth.

Brennan

Absolution, the ability to transform ourselves. So you grew up suffering. In the myth, Jesus suffered and he forgave those––

Booth

Not a myth.

Brennan

Please, Booth. Water to wine, raising the dead, walking on water, these defy the basic laws of physics, but forgiveness, that's its value. That's why the myth has endured.

When did empowerment become stuffing dollar bills down a man's pants?

Brennan

The 1970s. I already said that. You should pay closer attention.

Booth

I thought you'd want some weird tribal wedding where I'd have to pay for you in giraffes.

Brennan

No, no one offers giraffes. The archaic Catholic wedding ritual is important to you, and even as an Atheist, I can see the beauty in it. Plus, I speak Latin.

Brennan

It's clearly irrational, but I feel I could never find a better man to spend my life with. And I'm...

Angela

Happy.

Brennan

And I thought that should be recorded for the world.

Brennan

I want to marry you. Will you marry me, Booth?

Booth

Are you serious?

Brennan

Yes. I've been afraid, I've been stubborn, and I've been in love. And marriage would make you so happy.

Booth

You're sure? You're not just saying this because of Pelant and everything that's going on here?

Brennan

Positive. All of this just made me see things more clearly. I love you. I want you to be my husband. I want to...I want to spend the rest of my life with you. [Booth is still stunned] Say something.

Booth

Yes. Of course. Yes.

Brennan

You are not allowed to die. Do you understand?

Booth

Yeah, I understand.

Booth

Hiya Bones.

Brennan

I called you earlier.

Booth

Yeah, I forgot to charge my phone.

Brennan

Christine wanted to talk to her daddy.

Booth

Listen, Bones. About not answering the phone.

Brennan

I know you were lying. And you didn't come home last night.

Booth

I was working. I have my regular hours, plus I'm trying to catch Pelant.

Brennan

Angela agrees. She says you're lying too.

Booth

Well, Angela doesn't know everything. [pauses] I'd die for you. I love you.

Booth

We can talk about Christine.

Brennan

Christine is doing very well. She recognizes all her colors, and I think she's following along when I read to her.

Booth

Or when I read to her too. You're talking as if I'm not even there.

Brennan

It feels like you aren't there. Which I realize it's like an illusion but that's how it feels.

Booth

We're gonna get past this.

Brennan

I don't even know what all of this is!

Booth

Hey, look. I love you. You love me. Everything is gonna be okay.

Brennan

I know you want me to accept what you're saying on faith because you're a man of faith, but I believe in sequences and patterns and this sequence doesn't end well unless something disrupts the pattern.

Daisy

Would you care to high five?

Brennan

I would not.

Daisy

I can do it myself.

Brennan

How long have you been with Hodgins?

Angela

Working together 10 years. Sleeping together 5 years. Married 3 years.

Aldo

Booth loves you.

Brennan

Booth told you that?

Aldo

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.

Brennan

I wanted to marry him.

Aldo

Not as much as he wants to marry you.

Brennan

[concerned] You were shot at!

Booth

I get shot at my whole life.