- Special Agent Seeley Booth: But come on, Bones. He's hurting, all right? Whether you're right or wrong, you levelled the guy.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: He's a grown man.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sometimes that makes it hurt more. What makes us human, Bones, is we feel compassion and regret.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Why is this so important to you, Booth?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Because I know the kind of person you are. And I think you should let others in on the secret too.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Sometimes wouldn't you just like to be a person like the rest of us - instead of someone who just - paralyzes people?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Those of us who tell the truth have always endured harsh judgements. Copernicus. Galileo. I accept that as something I have to deal with.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: I can't help you.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: Why not? Some sort of professional code of ethics?
- Dr. Lance Sweets: My own personal code of ethics. You should consider putting one together of your own.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: SHUT UP!
- Dr. Lance Sweets: Excuse me?
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: You know you have never had to put someone else's well being above your own - not ever! Well, I am a mother! Okay? And if I have to get my hands dirty to get my child ahead - I will!
- Dr. Lance Sweets: What kind of example are you setting for Michelle?
- Michelle Welton: Well, surprise, I've learned a lot from you. I've learned to try hard, and not take shortcuts.
- [Michelle tears up the Columbia acceptance letter]
- Michelle Welton: I've learned that it's wrong to cheat.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: Oh. Really. What are you going to do?
- Michelle Welton: Here's what I'll do. I'll work for a year and make money. And I'll take extra courses. And I'll get into Columbia on my own. And make you proud.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: You already have.
- Michelle Welton: I want to be just like you.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: [Chuckles] That's sweet but I think you should aim a little higher.
- Dr. Douglas Filmore: Confrontation's not a natural state for me. I'm... Canadian.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: Canadian or afraid?
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I'm glad that you apologized to the Canadian. I'm proud of you, Bones.
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: I didn't apologize.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: I thought...
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: The word "apology" derives from the Ancient Greek "apologia" which means "a speech in defense." When I defended what I said to him, you told me that wasn't a real apology.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Why don't you think of a word that means you feel bad for making someone else feel bad?
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Contrite.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Ah!
- Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: From the Latin "contritus" meaning "crushed by a sense of sin."
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: There. That's it. Contrite. Okay, I'm happy that you contrited to the Canadian.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: [after Michelle gets accepted to Columbia from Cam's application] You have something about this?
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: Angela says no... But this is a disapproving look.
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: Does it mean anything that it's all moot? Michelle is determined to go to Community College in outer Mongolia to be with her boyfriend.
- Dr. Douglas Filmore: I'm sorry Dr. Brennan, but as far as we are concerned these are Canadian feet. And as such, they will be examined by an ordinary garden variety podiatrist.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: [to Bones] That's great. Now look what you've done... Thank you.
- Dr. Douglas Filmore: I like to believe the fact that we walk upright is the reason our brains developed.
- Kent Durham: Okay. Wait. Th-this is not what it looks like.
- Special Agent Seeley Booth: Well, looks like to me - you're trying to sell off your dead roommate's shoe collection.
- Kent Durham: Okay, it is what it looks like. It-it's just not what you think.
- Dr. Jack Hodgins: [to Filmore] You're in America now. It's okay to get *pissed* at Dr. B. She can take it.
- Dr. Lance Sweets: You forged Michelle's application and applied to Columbia?
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: Could you not say that as though I'd killed three people?
- Angela Montenegro: So we would get time of death wrong. But wait. Wouldn't everyone at the Body Farm know how to use that?
- Dr. Camille Saroyan: Yes, but from what Booth said only one of them had an alibi for what we thought was time of death. I'm guessing because he knew he'd need one.