Bones quotes

Fisher

9/11 was a trauma to us all - not like this guy or the people who died that day. But it still changed us, right? A-and we act like it doesn't matter. Clearly Wendell is freaking out and you ... [motions to Arastoo] you went nuts earlier. The first rule of the looney bin is to get it all out in the open. So, that's what we're going to do, alright? I'll go: I was in High School. It was my Senior Year. I was [chuckles] breaking into my history teacher's desk to steal a test I hadn't studied for and he walked in. He was crying. He couldn't care less what I was doing. That's when I found out. So I ... I talked with him. I had a stolen test in my hand, and we both sat...and we cried. Next? Oh, c'mon!

Clark

I was working. It was, uh, before school - coffee shop. Everyone was just staring at the TV. No one said a word. The cook came out to watch with the rest of us. I still remember the smell of food burning on that grill.

Finn

I was nine. I got in the way of my stepfather hitting my mama... he stuck me with some scissors. My mama wanted to take me to the hospital, but my hurt didn't seem like nothin' when we heard what had happened.

Arastoo

I was at morning prayers. I didn't believe that day. I didn't believe in anything.

Fisher

Wendell?

Wendell

I was, uh, with my aunt ... from that morning until the next few days. My uncle was a firefighter in New York. He never came home.

Booth

For years, Tim Murphy was homeless. He was forgotten. He was one of those people on the streets that we try not to look at because the sight of them is just too painful. But we're all cut from the same cloth. Tim knew that. He knew just how connected all of us are. He knew that if it wasn't for his three buddies, that Tim wouldn't be alive on September 11th to save the lives of Diane, Warren and James. And we wouldn't be able to tell Tim's son that Tim didn't die a broken man living on the streets, Sean, but he was as brave and noble as the rest of us. We lay him to rest today a hero.

Brennan

I dug out remains from the rubble of the towers. [pauses] For two weeks I was methodical, scientist. I did what was asked of me. I did my job. I never shed a tear. I was proud of that. [tears up] All these years I've never let myself feel... [starts crying]

Booth

[sympathetically] Bones, we all deal with things in our own way, ok?

Brennan

I could avoid it all before I met you. I had no one in my life. And now I think of those people and I think of you. Any one of them, it could've been you. [Booth embraces her as she sobs into his chest]

Brennan

It's a container of some sort...[examines pod]...filled with gelatinzed human remains.

Hodgins

[looks on with fascination] At first I thought pod people.

Booth

Of course you did.

Hodgins

Hey, there's still a lot of questions remaining about the events at Area 51, you know. Do you know that UFO spottings--

Booth

[annoyed] Let's just keep it close to earth here, bug boy. Just simplify the investigation.

Brennan

[to Booth] Reminds me of a ship in a bottle. My dad gave me one when I was little.

Booth

Right. So this, uh, kinda brings up all these "warm and cuddly" memories for you. That's nice.

Arastoo

So what now? Do we just tip it over and let it drain into a tub? Or insert a tube? Or...

Hodgins

Safety first. You want to make sure everything's safe in there.

Hodgins

I've never smelt anything like that before. [gags] I mean, I suppose that that could be, um....[faints]

Brennan

Sweets has trust issues involving finding a home. Since he grew up an orphan, the anger he's sublimated has paralyzed him from developing a healthy perspective on what having a home means. That made him bond with us and our home so he didn't have to deal with his own emotional insecurities.

Booth

Bones shoots from the outside! Three points!

Sweets

Where's that psychobabble coming from?

Booth

Well, you left one of your psychobabble books in our bathroom.

Booth

[to suspect, who is gloating over the fact that there's no evidence to convict him of murder] She's gonna find something. She always does.

Booth

You made one big mistake.

Yeah, what was that?

Booth

You pissed off my partner here.

Booth

[standing over Seth] Hey there, Michelangelo, can you hear me?

Brennan

[to Booth] You shouldn't call him that, Booth. If he had a head injury he might think that's who he is.

Something's poking in my back and something smells terrible!

Do you know your name?

Yes!

Booth

Ok, what is it.

I'm not saying.

Brennan

[to Booth] Told you. You confused him.

Booth

No I didn't––

I'm not confused! I'm just not tellin' you my name.

Booth

See, he's not confused.

Vitals are stable. No sign of concussion....

Who are you??

Booth

Who are we? [shows his badge] FBI, that's who we are.

Since when did FBI cover billboard vandalism??

Fisher

Are we allowed to laugh?

Ummmm...no. [looks at Brennan] What are we calling the one that's still alive?

Brennan

Well, Booth calls him Michelangelo.

Fisher

[looking at computer screen] Large rugged pelvis suggests the victim was a Caucasian male.

I have a large rugged pelvis? [grins] Booyah!!! [Cam smiles]

Brennan

Not you. The murder victim.

Everyone here is this combo of smart and dumb.

Brennan

Now you don't have to unfold and refold a map.

Booth

Wait a second, I like maps. What's wrong with maps?

Brennan

Well, maps cannot tell you the amount of traffic to expect en route to your destination. See? Now we can relax and talk about interesting things.

Booth

This is not how the cowboys settled this country.

Fisher

[pulls the corpse off Seth] It is with great pleasure that I divorce these skulls.

Fisher

I don't know if you're aware, but I do a bit of stand-up myself.

Brennan

I imagine you are not very skilled at it, as you are not a humorous person.

Fisher

My routine is dark, disturbing and uncomfortable. Just the way a comedy show should be.

Fisher

I don't do jokes, Dr. Saroyan. I do raw, unfiltered honesty.

Sweets

Are you nervous?

Booth

I've had people try to kill me, Sweets. I don't think cracking jokes makes me nervous.

Brennan

1,250,000.

Booth

What???

Brennan

That's how long it would take to check out every toilet in DC.

Booth

[turns to Brennan] Bones, once you start with the math you don't stop, right?

Brennan

[smiles] You think everyone's like that, don't you?

Booth

[humoring Brennan, smirks] Yeah I think so, definitely. Go math. Math people forever, right?