Seeley Booth quotes from Bones

This line of questioning is absurd. Move on with it.

Booth

This is not your fake courtroom, Trudy. I call the shots here. You're more than a social drinker, aren't you? I can tell by the way your hand is shaking.

I have the occasional drink. Occasional.

Booth

[sarcastically] Right. Bet you had the "occasional" DUI. For me it was gambling, for my father it was drinking. I know a problem when I see one.

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.

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

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

I lied to the woman I love.

Aldo

That's not a quick lie from the grain, that's a whopper lie from the heart.

Booth

Right. Which makes it a sin.

Aldo

You want the truth? Go home and tell Temperance the truth.

Booth

Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned. [does the sign of the Cross] It's been... [downs a shot] Woah, this is definitely not the good stuff, Father.

Aldo

Don't call me "Father", Master Sergeant. I'm not a priest anymore.

Booth

I'm not in the Army anymore, so that makes us even.

Booth

Hiya Bones.

Brennan

I called you earlier.

Booth

Yeah, I forgot to charge my phone.

Brennan

Christine wanted to talk to her daddy.

Okay, I don't usually get involved, Seeley. You got cold feet, I understand but if you don't warm up those feet real fast, you're gonna lose her. Forever.

Booth

Mind your own business, Camille.

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.

Angela

Don't hang up. It's me.

Booth

Why would I hang up on you?

Angela

Because we don't like each other ever since you broke my best friend's heart.

Booth

Let's move on.

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.

Booth

Freeze! FBI!

Ooh, FBI. I'm shaking.

Booth

Stop telling Bones I'm lying to her.

Angela

What's the problem, Booth? What, you need one more fling before settling down?

Booth

I'm not a fling kind of guy. And you know that.

Angela

Maybe Brennan isn't as attractive to you now she's become a mom.

Booth

You're not helping the situation.

Angela

You're ruining her very fragile heart! You should be ashamed of yourself!