The fact that Temperance Brennan finds objectivity about something difficult is, actually, pretty terrifying.

"If it was me, if our places were reversed . . . I think I would want it to hurt. Isn't that an awful thing to say? Maybe I don't even mean it. I don't know. But I think that, at least for a little while, I would want it to hurt so much that he wouldn't be sure he could stand it. To be something that he didn't actually if there was a way to get over or around or through.

"Which I guess makes me a horrible person. But there it is."