- Zani: A promise is a prison, Elnor. Do not make yourself another's jailer.
- Jean-Luc Picard: And that reminds me, Zani, last time I made you a promise that I would try and find some sweet hanifak. But I totally forgot that promises were prisons, so...
- Zani: You're not too late to rescue Elnor. He does not belong here. Once the evacuation ended, we simply never found a better home for him.
- Jean-Luc Picard: He completed his training?
- Zani: Last spring.
- Jean-Luc Picard: So he really is a Qowat Milat?
- Zani: No, and as a man, he never can be. But he is open-hearted, and apart from this display of the reticence you always seemed to inspire in him, forthright. And his fighting skills are truly formidable.
- Jean-Luc Picard: And you would send him away? He might find himself in serious danger. He might die.
- Zani: He will. Before that comes to pass, it would gladden my heart to see him live.
- Dr. Agnes Jurati: What's the Way of Absolute Candor?
- Jean-Luc Picard: It's their primary teaching: total communication of emotion without any filter between thought and word. And it runs entirely counter to everything that the Romulans hold dear.
- Elnor: I have bound myself to Picard as qalankhkai. Anyone who threatens him will be choosing to die!
- Zani: You got old, Admiral Picard.
- Jean-Luc Picard: You didn't.
- Zani: I remind you that this is a house of truth.
- Zani: You're making the admiral uncomfortable, Elnor. He dislikes displays of emotion, and he's not overly fond of children.
- Tenqem Adrev: No one asked for your pity, Picard, just as no one asked for your help. You and Starfleet had no understanding of Romulan ingenuity, resolve, self-sufficiency! You took advantage of us at the very moment where we doubted ourselves, enticed us with your empty promises, and did everything in your power to scatter, confuse, and divide us!