4. Learning To Fly- Tom Petty
The manuscript has long since been wiped from her hard-drive, yet the words seem to have taken up permanent residence inside her head.
Booth would claim their location to be in her heart, but he would be wrong. Because Temperance Brennan, does not think with her heart.
Except she thinks maybe she's starting to understand what it means to put that particular organ into overdrive. And therein lies the problem.
Because she does not believe that love is anything more than a state of physiological being brought forth by the surge of hormones and neurotransmitters; but she expresses the desire to believe in Booth's notion of it anyway.
She does not believe that one person can be everything another will ever need, can't understand why someone would even want to live up to such a foolhardy ideal. But she cannot imagine a day when she will not care about her partner; a day when she will not want and need him to be in her life and by her side.
She does not believe that giving yourself to someone, body and mind and metaphorical heart in one complete package, is destined to end in anything but emotional destitute when the inevitable fall from grace comes.
The hypocrisy of writing about burdens that allow us to fly is unnerving.
Yet she finds, with as much conviction as she does believe in science and the unalterable laws of the universe, she can't help but believe in him.
