- Major Kira Nerys: What do Klingons dream about?
- Worf: Things that would send cold chills down your spine, and wake you in the middle of the night. It is better you do not know. Excuse me.
- [leaves]
- Major Kira Nerys: I can never tell when he's joking.
- Captain Sisko: If I were in your position, I'd probably be just as ready to throw away everything for the person I love. But I would also want to be sure... that I was ready to pay the price.
- Major Kira Nerys: [on Lenara Kahn] You know that woman?
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: I know her. She used to be my wife...
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Nilani wasn't panicking the day before Torias died.
- Dr. Lenara Kahn: No?
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: No. Torias should have listened to her. The shuttle was not ready for a full impulse test. But Torias had to do it anyway. And he was wrong. And whatever part of me is still Torias... is very sorry, and wishes he'd listened to you.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: [about Curzon] He used to say there was an exception to every rule; and he usually went out of his way to find it.
- [last lines]
- Dr. Lenara Kahn: Dax, I am not like you. I don't have a little Curzon inside me telling me to be impulsive, to ignore the rules, to give up everything that I've worked for.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Can you really walk away from me? From us? After all this time we're together. Don't throw that away!
- Dr. Lenara Kahn: I don't want to! Maybe I need more time. Maybe if I go back to Trill for a while, I... I'll think it over, I... I can always come back later.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: I wish I could believe you. But ultimately it comes down to this: if you feel about me the way I feel about you, you won't go on that transport tomorrow. And if you do leave, I think we both know... you're never coming back again.
- Quark: [after painfully establishing Jadzia's and Lenara's former relationship] I'm sorry I brought the whole thing up; it's giving me a headache.
- Doctor Bashir: It must be all the latinum rattling around in there...
- [he suddenly scrutinizes Quark's ear, reaches out and repeats Jadzia's earlier trick on him]
- Doctor Bashir: Oh - I thought so. You really should have that looked at.
- Captain Sisko: I know this is difficult for you, I know how you feel about Lenara. But I want you to think about what will happen if you pursue this. If you're exiled from Trill, there will be no further hosts for your symbiont. When Jadzia dies, Dax dies.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: [to Sisko] I've lived seven lifetimes, and I have never had a friend quite like you.
- [Dax has performed some magic tricks which Quarks tries in vain to explain]
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Don't worry, Quark, you'll figure it out eventually.
- [she suddenly looks at Quark startled]
- Quark: What?
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: No wonder you can't figure it out.
- [she reaches for Quark's ear and pulls a strip of latinum out of it]
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Your head's full of latinum!
- Dr. Lenara Kahn: It's really good to see you again, Dax. That sounds so strange. I mean, I'm looking at a different face, hearing a different voice... But somehow it's still you.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: I know. Every time I start to think of you as just Lenara, you'll smile, or laugh, and suddenly it's you.
- Doctor Bashir: For a joined Trill, nothing is more important than to protect the life of the symbiont. Nothing.
- Dr. Lenara Kahn: [at a reception party] I suppose we should load up our plates, since the whole room is watching us.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: [appraising the people around] Quite an audience.
- Dr. Lenara Kahn: Seems a shame to disappoint them; maybe we should do something.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Well, we could get into a screaming match and start throwing things at each other.
- Dr. Lenara Kahn: Not bad. Or I suppose we could throw ourselves at each other, profess our undying love for each other, and complete disregard for Trill society.
- Major Kira Nerys: I don't understand how two people who've fallen in love, and made a life together, can be forced to just walk away from each other because of a... taboo.