Stella Bonasera quotes from CSI: NY

What?

Stella

You hear that?

Hear what?

Stella

It's your mind racing again.

S1 E10 Night, Mother

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Slick was dead before he hit the subway tracks.

Stella

So, we're looking at an electrocution to cover up an electrocution.

S1 E11 Tri-Borough

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Stella Bonasera

All right, Danny. How does the DNA from the fingernail scrapings on the knife not match Brett Stokes? I mean, she's got 'motive' tattooed on her forehead.

Hey, don't kill the messenger...see what I did there?

Stella Bonasera

Cute.

S1 E12 Recycling

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[Stella has just won a bet that she and Mac made on the outcome of the dog show]

You're going to make me pay?

Stella

Yeah, I'm going to make you pay.

I thought you were kidding.

Stella

Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant.

S1 E12 Recycling

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[Danny is looking through a ladies' magazine, looking for a sample of lotion found on a murder weapon]

Stella

You know, if you wanted beauty tips, all you had to do was ask.

Did you know that waterproof mascara dries out your eyelashes? That's amazing!

S1 E12 Recycling

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Usually when you stab somebody, you know the guy's name. It's just common courtesy.

TGTheodore Gates

Well, I didn't stab anyone. [to Stella] What on earth is he talking about?

Det. Stella Bonasera

Your DNA was found on the knife that was used to stab Michael Starling.

TGTheodore Gates

I see. Was it a Swiss Army Knife?

Nice job, you got it on the first try.

TGTheodore Gates

[to Stella] Is it necessary that he be here?

What? What's the matter, am I too old for you?

[the magazine vendor, Mark Stutz, just explained he stabbed the messenger because he was sick and tired of bikers acting like they own the area]

S1 E12 Recycling

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Stella

Son of a bitch!

MSMark Stutz

Makes you want to murder 'em, don't it?

Det. Stella Bonasera

[Stella doesn't respond to his comment] Get in the car.

S1 E12 Recycling

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[Stella sees a Derek Jeter bobblehead on the dashboard of an SUV she and Mac are processing]

Stella Bonasera

Who is that on the dashboard? Mickey Mantle?

Looks kind of like Derek Jeter.

Stella Bonasera

Derek Jeter from the Yankees, right?

Yeah.

Stella Bonasera

Didn't they get beat by Boston or something?

We were up three to zero and then we got swept. But we're trying to forget that.

Stella Bonasera

I'm not much into baseball, but A-Rod's kind of hot.

S1 E13 Tanglewood

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Stella

Hey Mac, I got pearls.

Pearls? From who?

Stella

Not those kinds of pearls. I've got good news on our case.

S1 E13 Tanglewood

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The stereotype is kids run away to join the circus. Where do kids already in the circus go?

Stella Bonasera

Apparently the elephant enclosure.

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[They lift out what they thought was a trunk from the sand]

Stella

That's not a trunk. It's a box!

It's not a box. It's a coffin.

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Detective Stella Bonasera

Until now I never really believed people were double-jointed.

Detective Mac Taylor

They're not. There's no such thing as double-jointed. It's just people with very loose tendons and muscles.

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[after finding a body in a box]

Pretty sure this isn't the buried treasure our swimmer had in mind.

Stella

Coney Island, February, water's 35 degrees. These people still find the need to take a dip, I don't get it.

That's why you're not a polar bear.

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Did you find anything else?

I haven't gone in yet.

What?? Flack, you little scaredy cat, you don't believe these stories about this place being haunted?

I was doing my job, Aiden: getting statements from witnesses.

Stel, you smell that?

Stella

Yeah. Chicken. Well, I did hear the one about the monk who went crazy and killed the others is true.

The 1-2-2 gets calls about strange noises coming from this place all the time.

Will you stop? That's just an old urban legend.

Stella

Aiden, I think you'd better hold Flack's hand.