Hank Booth quotes from Bones

Hank

[reading a letter from his son - Booth's father] "I didn't write a letter to Seely because I knew he'd rip up anything I sent him - and he should. If you can find a way, let him know ... I love him. He and Jarod deserved a better father than me. A father ... a father as good as I had. Thank you for raising him to be the man I could never be."

Hank

[to Booth] Son, listen. I know you wish some things could've been resolved. Closure, they call it. But life is just a lot of loose ends. So smile, love that woman you have and love that new little girl that you're gonna have.

Hank Booth

Did I take these blue pills?

You took the yellow pills.

Hank

I feel like a damn chemistry experiment! They didn't have this stuff fifty years ago and everybody was fine!

Brennan

Actually, medicine has increased life expectancy quite a bit since 1959. Fifty years ago, you'd probably be dead.

Bones!

Hank

No, I like her. She's real. She's got balls.

Brennan

Well, ovaries, actually.

Hank

All right, you've got steel ovaries.

Brennan

Thank you.

Will you two, please!

Brennan

Being overweight wasn't always stigmatized. During the Middle Ages in Italy, the wealthy and influential members of society were called popolo grosso, meaning literally, fat people.

Hank

Is she always like this?

Well, Pops, she always has the facts, Pops. Always.

Hank

You should go on a gameshow. You'd clean up.

I tell her that all the time, but you know, she's already loaded.

Hank

She's got talent, charm, beauty, money and you're just friends? I didn't raise you very well.

Hank

Everyone needs someone. Don't be scared.

Brennan

Scared, what? I'm not scared of anything.

Hank

It all goes by so fast. You don't want any regrets.

Brennan

I don't understand.

Hank

Yes, you do.

Hank

Wait a minute... [grabs phone from the officer] Seeley, I'm fine. I just took a subway to see my friend Willy Louis. I mentioned him to you. We were in the 82nd together.

[trying hard to keep his cool] Yeah. I remember, Pops.

Hank

Well, the son of a bitch up and died on me! They had the funeral three weeks ago and nobody even told me.

Hank

Probate forms, insurance claims, pension documents, social security forms. You gotta sign these.

Me? Why do I have to sign these? I haven't seen him in twenty years

Hank

You're next of kin.

So are you, so is Jared.

Hank

Your father made you sole executor and beneficiary.

[scoffs] Huh. Beneficiary. Having him for a father wasn't exactly a benefit, Pops

Hank

Seeley...

Look, you were my father, all right? He was never there for me. You raised me, not him. He was never there. Understand? You don't have to defend him to me.

Hank

I wasn't. I was just trying to remind you that he was my son. [Booth looks up at him] Good or bad, he was my son. I gotta tell ya, I'm a little disappointed that you don't seem to see the hurt I'm feeling.

[mumbles] Sorry, Pops.

Hank

You don't think I know what it was like for you? You don't think I don't feel responsible? I raised him. Don't you feel responsible for your boy? Now, Seeley, we're family. We're gonna get through this together.

Hank

I'd like to make a toast before we go.

No no no, Pops. You do that at the rehearsal dinner, OK?

Hank

Just a little one, Shrimp. A private one. I've been waiting for this day ever since I met Tempe.

Max

I'm doing that to him.

Then I'm going to sing a song. A little one. Actually, two.

Parker

I'm pretty hungry.

Brennan

We should hurry. We don't want to be late to the dinner...

Yeah.

[jokingly looks at Max and Hank] You know what? We're getting in trouble for loving them.

Hank

Better not to listen. [turns to Booth] You're a lucky man, Shrimp. You found a woman who's willing to stand up to you and call you on your crap.

My what??

Hank

You can be stubborn and if she's willing to stick around and try to civilize you, then you better listen and make adjustments, 'cause that's love.

Seeley, what you have here is the final piece of the puzzle. It's what's going to make you whole. Tempe is the woman I always wished I could be and the one that every mother prays that her son will find.

Max

[dramatically] Now I'm gonna cry. How can I do a speech if I'm gonna cry.

Hank

You should elope!

[groans] Ooohhhh.

Parker

What's that?

Hank

It means going to the justice of the peace to get hitched. No fuss, no bother.

Pops, forget it. I owe Bones fuss.

Eloping is romantic.

Parker

[grins] Chicks dig romantic, Dad!

Hank

That's true!

[horrified] What do you mean chicks?!