Temperance Brennan Quotes
Sweets: Do you want my advice?
Sweets: Okay, if you really want to help Booth, you should let him teach you about plumbing.
Brennan: I'm a wealthy, accomplished woman. Why would I want to learn a menial skill?
Sweets: Well, for Booth, so he can regain whatever he feels he's lost. I think, for once, it would be beneficial if you were the student.
Avalon: You two are gonna keep doing things as usual.
Booth: Sometimes you gotta settle for second best.
Avalon: By the way, my cards tell me this all works out eventually.
Booth: Oh. Really?
Bones: What works out eventually?
Well, they gave me medication. So I feel how I imagine people of average intelligence feel, all the time.
Bones
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.
Bones: What did you want to tell me?
Booth: That I love you... In a professional, 'atta girl' kind of way.
Bones: 'Atta girl' kind of way? Right back at'cha Booth. I love you too. 'Atta Boy.'
Avalon: The man whose life you saved is really excited to see you again.
Brennan: No, I don't save lives. People are already dead when I get to them.
Booth: (referring to the body) Looks like a purple Smurf.
Brennan: Pelvic bone indicates a male.
Booth: Like a rubber, purple, Smurf.
Hodgins: (after Brennan says she wants a baby) Is there a father?
Brennan: Well, I'd like to use Booth's sperm.
Cam: Booth. What do you know?
Angela: Then why use Booth at all? Why don't you use Fisher ... and his discount sperm?
Brennan: No, Booth has a bigger mandible and a more prominent zygomatic than Fisher, as well as a more pronounced ratio between the width of his clavicles and his ilia.
Angela: So, it's because Booth is hot?
Booth: You really liked holding that kid didn't you?
Brennan: Yeah. I've been thinking about how exciting it would be to expose my own child to early pattern recognition.
Booth: You know they like singing and uh, when you make funny faces at 'em too.
Brennan: Yeah of course. I-I will make a diverse schedule.
Brennan: Diane Sidmans's role was important to the Large Hadron Collider team?
Landis Collar: The effort to find the Higgs-Boson will be set back months.
Brennan: I thought you would be with Booth.
Cam: Questioning people isn't, really my thing. Most of the time I just wanna ... beat them until they tell me what I wanna hear.
Brennan: I know, it gets frustrating and, hitting can often be quite effective.
Clark: And you both work with the Justice Department.
Brennan: Yes.
Clark: Ironic.
