Temperance Brennan quotes from Bones

Booth

Bones, you don't need a gun. If anyone needs shooting, I'll do it.

Brennan

But what if you're injured or dead and someone still needs shooting? I'm not hoping it will happen. I'm just stating the possibility.

Booth

You know what, Bones? You're a professor, all right? You're not an FBI agent. Use your mutant powers...just talk people to death.

Brennan

Are you going to help with the digging?

Booth

Well I would but, psh, this is a $1200 suit.

Booth

You know, I'm sorry for wrecking your weekend for nothing.

Brennan

No, not for nothing.

Booth

Ah, you know what I mean. You know all that running around it didn't change anything. Epps was guilty. He was always guilty.

Brennan

There was doubt. We had an obligation to respect that doubt. We all share in the death of every human being.

Booth

Very poetic.

Brennan

No, very literal. We all share DNA. (very earnestly) When I look at a bone it's not some artifact that I can separate from myself. It's a part of a person who got here the same way I did. It should never be easy to take someone's life. I don't care who it is. (Booth stares at her intently for a long while) What? (he continues to stare and a smile begins to form on his lips) What?

Booth

You know you've been practicing your Nobel prize speech just a little too much.

Zack

[excitedly] The Anthropology Journal is publishing our piece on the evolution of the Coronals suture.

Brennan

Worthy interruption.

Zack

You're supposed to bump my fist with yours.

Brennan

Why?

Zack

I'm told it's a widely acknowledged gesture of mutual success. [puts his fist down]

Angela

I love it when you two impersonate earthlings.

Brennan

So why are you here?

George Washington University wants to talk to me about heading their Anthropology department.

Brennan

They'd be lucky to get you.

I assume they tried you first.

Brennan

I already had a job.

Brennan

Not tonight. I have a dinner.

Booth:

What? Wow. I just assumed that the two of you would be eating off an autopsy table.

Brennan

Not tonight!

Booth

I was being...uh...Tomorrow's fine.

Angela

You know, you can take the day off. You deserve one day.

Brennan

Michael wanted to look at our equipment.

Angela

...I'm gonna let that one go...

Brennan

How I feel doesn't matter. My job doesn't depend on it.

But it's informed by it. Are you as cold and unfeeling as you seem?

Brennan

I see a face on every skull. I can look at their bones and tell you how they walked, where they hurt. Maggie Schilling is real to me. The pain she suffered was real. Her hip was being eaten away by infection from lying on her side. Sure, like Dr. Stires said, the disease could contribute to that if you take it out of context; but you can't break Maggie Schilling down into little pieces. She was a whole person who fought to free herself. Her wrists were broken from struggling against the handcuffs. The bones in her ankles were ground together because her feet were tied. And her side, her hip and her shoulder were being eaten away by infection. And the more she struggled, the more pain she was in. So they gave her those drugs to keep her quiet. They gave her so much it killed her. These facts can't be ignored or dismissed because you think I'm boring or obnoxious, because I don't matter. What I feel doesn't matter. Only she matters; only Maggie.

Brennan

The jury likes Michael better than they like me, apparently that's a problem. Are they stupid? Because they seem to be.

Goodman

Compared to you, yes, they are stupid. However, compared to you most of the world is a little stupid. You have many skills Temperance, not one of them includes communicating with the average person on the street which is exactly what juries are made of.

Brennan

I'm a better forensic anthropologist than Michael Stiers.

Goodman

Which is why two years ago I hired you instead of him.

Brennan

Michael applied for this job?

Goodman

Yes.

Brennan

His credentials are better than mine.

Goodman

Yes, but you are the more rational, reasoned empirical scientist and you care and if he tries to convince you otherwise, tell him to go to hell.

Angela

It's all so tragic. A cheap wedding ring sewn into his suit. Two tickets to Paris. It makes you wonder, who was the girl? Can you imagine what it was like for her, waiting and wondering, never knowing what happened?

Brennan

I don't have to imagine.

Booth

You don't seem too upset about missing Christmas.

Brennan

Indications are that Christ, if he existed, was born in late spring, and the celebration of his birth was shifted to coincide with the pagan rite of the winter solstice so that early Christians weren't persecuted.

Booth

What are you, like, the Christmas killer?

Brennan

It's the truth.

Booth

No, it sounds like the truth because it's so rational, right? But the... you know, the true truth is you hate Christmas, so you just spout out all these facts and you ruin it for everyone else.

Brennan

I ruin the true truth with facts?

Brennan

Anthropologically speaking, gifts are a way of asserting dominance in a group. Now imagine an entire holiday devoted to self-promotion, especially in this materialistic culture. How can you expect me to get behind that? How can you get behind that?

Booth

Wow, that's... that's deep. It's a very deep pile of crap.

Brennan

You came to me with information this morning, a peace offering. But it was to make you feel better, not me. Proves my point.

Booth

Okay, could we just stop bringing up the whole Christ myth thing? Some people believe it's more than just a myth.

Brennan

Well, who besides you?

Goodman

That would be me, Dr. Brennan. I'm a deacon at my church.

Angela

I do. Christmas and Easter, anyway.

Hodgins

Although I believe organized religion is just another political movement designed to control the masses, it doesn't mean God doesn't love me.

Zack

Hey, I'm a rational empiricist all the way, unless you talk to my mother. Then I'm Lutheran.

Angela

How am I going to enjoy this party knowing that my best friend in the whole world is in the lab, eyeball to eyeball with Skeletor?

Brennan

Who?

Hodgins

Wow, was that a shot, because I apologized. I mean, Zach doesn't get to see his family, Goodman doesn't get to see his kids, Booth doesn't get to see his son. At least I'm an accidental Grinch, with all due respect, you're the grinch on purpose.

Brennan

I have no idea what you're saying to me.