Bones (TV Series)
The Skull in the Sculpture (2008)
John Francis Daley: Lance Sweets
Quotes
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Dr. Lance Sweets : [Sitting together at a restaurant over dinner helping Angela work out her feelings and how she should go about her pursuing a her relationship with Roxie] It's exactly the same situation as the last time you were sitting here. Except, you know, you're quieter.
Angela Montenegro : No, that was about Hodgins. This is about Roxie.
Dr. Lance Sweets : [Loudly] You want to have sex with Roxie!
Angela Montenegro : What was that about quieter?
Dr. Lance Sweets : I'm sorry, I'm not certain you're being guided by your brain, that's all. Need can be confused with love. Fantasy can convince us that what we are feeling is love.
Angela Montenegro : So, you're saying is that this is all rebound?
Dr. Lance Sweets : Yeah.
Angela Montenegro : No, you don't understand love, Sweets.
Dr. Lance Sweets : I'm not as innocent as you might think.
Angela Montenegro : You have this bourgeois notion...
Dr. Lance Sweets : Bourgeois?
Angela Montenegro : ...that in order for love to be real it has to be permanent. Nothing is permanent. That's just a fact. We move in and out of loving other people, but that doesn't make the love any less real.
Dr. Lance Sweets : Mm-hmm, perhaps you're saying this because you haven't met the love of your life.
Angela Montenegro : I have actually. Many times.
Dr. Lance Sweets : Fine. It seems to me that you always leave yourself an escape hatch in your relationships, because you afraid of commitment.
Angela Montenegro : Nice try. But no. Actually, I commit to every person I love.
Dr. Lance Sweets : You marry a man and then conveniently forget that you married him because you got zonked on Kava Kava. That compromises your relationship with Hodgins so that ends, along with the marriage. Now you say you have these intense feelings for an ex-lover whose heart you've already broken. Don't you see the potential disaster here?
Angela Montenegro : Look, you said that, without the possibility of pain, there can be no joy, no real love.
Dr. Lance Sweets : I said that? That's beautiful.
Angela Montenegro : Look... I don't want to hurt Roxie again.
Dr. Lance Sweets : Then Don't. Don't. Put her welfare first. Let Roxie decide if she's ready to pursue this relationship.
Angela Montenegro : Okay. And what if she doesn't?
Dr. Lance Sweets : Then I'm afraid you'll have to live with that pain.
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Special Agent Seeley Booth : What's going on?
Dr. Jack Hodgins : Sweets is firing Daisy for us.
Dr. Camille Saroyan : We're wondering what his method will be.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : He'll explain to her logically that this environment is not conducive for either her or us and, as a scientist, she'll realize that he's right.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : No, Sweets is a lot sneakier than that. He'll use some kind of psychological Jedi mind trick to make her think it was her idea to quit.
Dr. Lance Sweets : I've got some good news and some bad news. Which would you like first?
Daisy Wick : The bad first.
Dr. Lance Sweets : You're toast here. Nobody wants to work with you.
Daisy Wick : Why?
Dr. Lance Sweets : You know why, Daisy. There are some things that you have to work on when it comes to interpersonal relations.
Daisy Wick : Does anybody like me?
Dr. Lance Sweets : No, I'm afraid not.
Daisy Wick : What's the good news?
Dr. Lance Sweets : There's absolutely no reason for us to be discreet about our relationship anymore.
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Roxie Lyon : [Being questioned by Booth while Sweets is observing through the two way mirror] I was Geoffrey Thorne's assistant for almost four years.
Dr. Lance Sweets : Okay, I suggest you start with the mundane, and then work yourself up to the sexual stuff.
Special Agent Seeley Booth : So, did you have a sexual relationship with your boss?
Dr. Lance Sweets : Okay. That's the total opposite of my suggestion.