Bones (TV Series)

The He in the She (2008)

David Gallagher: Ryan Stephenson

Quotes 

• Special Agent Seeley Booth : What? You afraid your father's going to burn in hell?

  Ryan Stephenson : No... No. I just wish I had a chance to know the new him - her.

• Ryan Stephenson : One of God's challenges to us is to see past the surface.

  [picks up a book and tears up the dust cover] 

  Ryan Stephenson : To the deeper essential nature, which lies right beneath.

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : You believe our bodies are like dustcovers?

  Ryan Stephenson : That's exactly what I think, Agent Booth. Rip them off, and see what's underneath... You see, all this time I though my father was killed, or had abandoned me, and that's just not what happened. He didn't want to shake my faith. He was protecting me from the truth. He... he didn't want me to have to choose between him and God, and I love my father for that. I just hope God can forgive me for making him feel that way.

• Ryan Stephenson : I think I should begin my first sermon to you as kind of an introduction. My name is Ryan Stephenson. I'm a child of man. I'm a child of woman. But more importantly, I'm a child of God, and as I look around I see others like me. We don't look alike. None of us look alike. On the outside, we are gay and straight, black and white, fat and thin, man and woman, saint and sinner. Should I keep going, or do you guys catch my drift? But inside... inside we are all the same.

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : That is completely incorrect.

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : Not now, Bones.

  Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan : Our skeletons are wildly different or I wouldn't have a job.

  Special Agent Seeley Booth : Just listen.

  Ryan Stephenson : I am sorry that I didn't get to know my father - Patricia. But I hope I will find him... her... that redeemed human being... both in her old Bible

  [holds Patricia's bible] 

  Ryan Stephenson : and, more importantly, in you, the people who she loved.