Favorite Temperance Brennan Quotes
Two plus two equals four. I put sugar in my coffee and it tastes sweet. The sun comes up because the world turns. These things are beautiful to me. There are mysteries I will never understand, but everywhere I look I see proof that for every effect there is a corresponding cause. Even if I can't see it. I find that reassuring.
Clark [with a Southern accent]: Well, is it all right if I get a drink of water, boss? You know, it's awful hot out there, and them tools is mighty heavy.
Brennan: Of course you can get water. Why are you talking like that?
Clark: Nevermind. I'll go.
Booth: You know, when I say heartbreaking you say the heart is a muscle, so it can't break. It can only get crushed.
Brennan: Isn't it heartcrushing?
Booth: You want to go to his funeral?
Brennan: Yes, I would. Then she won't be alone.
Booth: You know what, Bones? Sometimes I think your heart muscle is bigger than people give you credit for.
Brennan: I understand that when someone is blindly subservient to institutional authority, their judgment is frequently compromised.
Dr. Jacobs: That was an eloquent insult.
Brennan: I thought so.
When Booth and I first met, I didn't believe that such a thing as love existed. I maintained that it was simply brain chemistry, but perhaps Booth is correct. Perhaps love comes first and creates the reaction. I have no tangible proof, but I'm willing to accept Booth's premise.
Brennan: Don't make me leave, that's what he said.
Booth: He was talking to God, he didn't want to die...
Brenna: But he was like me, he was an atheist...
Booth: Well he was talking to the universe then.
Brennan: Well if there is a God he would have let Vincent stay here with us.
Booth: That's not how it works...
Booth: (arriving at the animal park with Brennan) I was here last weekend with Parker. They got monkeys swingin' free -- right over there! You think we have time?
Bones: Booth, we are here to recover a set of remains.
Booth: Come on Bones, you gotta take time to smell the primates.
Bones: Why? They're malodorous and they throw their excrement.
Brennan: Dad!
Max: He was gonna run I saw it in his eyes..
Brennan: Did you wash the nipples?
Booth: Yes, I did in the shower, but I don't think the daycare is gonna check.
We see big stars, tiny atoms too, because that is what scientists do. We get the facts and say what's true, because that is what scientists do. In darkest day in blackest night, no science shall escape my sight!
We have a house Booth. You found our home.
Avalon: The riddle you can't solve is how ... somebody could love you.
Bones: Well I'm, beautiful and very intelligent.
Avalon: The answer to the question that you're afraid to say out loud is ... yes. He knows the truth of you, and he is dazzled by that truth.
