Temperance Brennan quotes from Bones

Booth

[gets off the phone] Yeah, that was Aubrey. There was a body found in Columbia Heights.

Brennan

So does this mean you'll be missing date night?

Booth

Nah, Aubrey can take care of himself. Besides, I don't want to miss that whore sauce.

Brennan

Will you please stop referring to the puttanesca as "whore sauce".

Booth

I'm sorry but does puttanesca not mean "in the style of the whore" in Italian?

Brennan

Yeah, it does, and every time I make it, I regret having told you that.

Booth

Whore sauce.

Brennan

Are you sure you want to take this case, Booth?

Booth

What are you talking about?

Brennan

Aubrey may die.

Booth

Don't talk like that! Aubrey is not gonna die.

Brennan

He may, and if he does, I'm worried you'll react the same way you did when Sweets died.

Booth

Okay, look, when Sweets died, I blamed myself. You understand? The weight of the guilt is what drove me to gamble again.

Wendell

When I was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, Booth told me giving up wasn't an option. That I had to fight.

Brennan

That metaphorical concept will not give Dr. Hodgins the use of his legs. In fact, he may be offended by the very idea that he can fight his nerves back into growing, given the extreme unlikeliness of recovery.

Wendell

My recovery was extremely unlikely but it happened.

Booth

Boy, Hodgins would have been all over something like that.

Yeah. But I sent him home. I just....I had to.

Booth

Are you sure about that?

It was the only responsible thing to do.

Booth

Hodgins didn't have a choice about what happened to him. You should let him decide how he's going to come back from it.

I couldn't forgive myself if anything more were to happen to him.

Booth

I-I get that. But, you know, he should at least have the choice. I mean, work could actually give him hope.

Brennan

I do not understand why you think Hodgins needs a misguided sense of optimism about his condition.

Paul, I can take care of this.

No, there is only on thing you're going to do and that's keep your damn mouth shut.

Brennan

Mrs. Walters, as a proponent for equality between sexes, I'm shocked you'd allow your husband to speak to you like that.

That one likes flapping her gums, doesn't she? You might want to get a muzzle on her.

Booth

Outside.

Brennan

That idea is not only misogynistic, it's downright sociopathic.

What can I say? All bitches need to be muzzled sometime.

Booth

I suggest you stop talking before I do something we both regret.

Brennan

Booth, stop. You could lose your job for striking a civilian. [punches Paul]

Booth

Aw, Bones.

Brennan

Whereas I might face disciplinary action at most.

I think his jaw is broken.

We'll be filing charges of criminal assault against this woman.

As well as a civil suit.

I told you, she needs to be muzzled!

Brennan

Actually, the problem isn't my mouth, it's yours.

Brennan

It's a tea made from ginger, fennel and anise.

Booth

Certainly smells like that.

Brennan

[sighs] Booth, I said "anise", not "anus".

Booth

Smells like the other end, too.

Brennan

So, the fractures on the calcaneus and cuboid of the right foot...

Booth

Well, you know, sometimes hockey players block shots with their feet, but, you know, skates, they can only protect so much.

Brennan

And the broken ribs?

Booth

Well, there's cross-checking. I mean, being slammed into the boards, not to mention all the fighting that there is in hockey.

Brennan

[impressed] This is very useful, Booth. You're practically an intern on the case.

Booth

All right, stop. Not an intern, don't call me an intern, don't even think about calling me a squint, all right? I just happen to know a little bit about hockey.

Angela

[squeals] Wow, it's the engagement ring. Arastoo did good.

Brennan

I agree. As far as well-marketed minerals masquerading as good investments go, this is exquisite.

Booth

What is with the breath coming through the back right now? It smells like death warmed over almost like a toxic blast of camel butt.

Aubrey

[looks offended] Wow. This is a black kale chia smoothie.

Booth

Why? Why are you drinking that? Did you lose a bet or something?

Brennan

Do you have an infected lesion?

Booth

What? Why would you even ask that?

Brennan

Well, black kale is high in vitamin K and antioxidants, both of which promote healing.

Aubrey

Jessica just thought maybe it'd be a good idea if I went on a junk food cleanse.

Booth

Go back to the donuts because that just smells like monkey ass.

Booth

I'm a sniper, you hear me, and snipers, they do not fire blanks.

Brennan

And in that analogy, my ovaries are what, target practice?

Brennan

Booth, I found something.

Booth

She found something.

Oh, my Is this where he died?

Booth

No, this is where he went to heaven.

Brennan

My husband is euphemistically referring to sex. By the sheer quantity––

Booth

[interrupts] You're gonna need a new cleaning service. So who was Mr. Felbeck seeing?

Brennan

By seeing, he means in-intercourse.

Brennan

Angela, is this one of the computers from the retirement home?

Angela

Yeah. And you won't believe what I'm finding.

Brennan

I assume you're referring to pornographic material?

Angela

Enough to make a teenage boy blush. You'd think at a certain age enough would be enough.

Brennan

Not for the male of the species. They are biologically programmed to keep wanting sexual gratification. Which is why I told Booth he needs to get a vasectomy.

Brennan

Moving forward, there is only one thing you can do for Aldo.

Booth

Look, if you're gonna tell me to forgive myself, please don't.

Brennan

Forgiveness would be ineffective.

Booth

Okay then, what? I mean, what works?

Brennan

Revenge.

Booth

That's not me. I mean, there are rules.

Brennan

You will follow those rules. The act of bringing a murderer to justice is, anthropologically speaking, a form of revenge. You have suffered a loss. Making the killer suffer for that loss will help.

Booth

Yeah, well, I hope so, Bones. Because right now I couldn't feel much worse.

Brennan

It didn't go well with the men?

Booth

These guys saw hell. You know, most of them are still paying the price.

Brennan

You feel the effects of war, too, Booth.

Booth

Yeah. Yeah, but I got lucky. I got a great family and great life. Got all this.

Brennan

You're an addict, just like Aldo.

Booth

Yeah.

Brennan

Unlike him, you got help.

Booth

Yeah. But you're in my corner. That's the difference. Aldo had no one.

Brennan

How important do you think it is for us to love what we do?

Angela

Uh, well, it, it's important, but it's not everything. Most people don't love their jobs. They don't even like them. They do them because they have to.

Brennan

What if they didn't have to?

Angela

If you can afford to leave an unfulfilling job, why wouldn't you?