- Galen: [about Isabelle] Every technomage knows the fourteen words that will make someone fall in love with you forever, but she only needed one.
- Capt. Matthew Gideon: What word?
- Galen: "Hello."
- [Galen visits Dureena's quarters for the first time.]
- Galen: What have you done to your quarters?
- Dureena Nafeel: I made it the right size. I don't know why everybody else always makes things huge. This is the way I like it, nice and small. Have a seat.
- Galen: Do you think I'm hiding things from you?
- Dureena Nafeel: Gideon says we all have things to hide.
- Galen: Does he? How unfortunate. I was hoping he'd come farther than that. Not that it isn't true, of course. It's just that one simply doesn't have to say it.
- [upon first contact with the Fenn in hyperspace.]
- Max Eilerson: I think it's safe to say that we're not being consumed, but it's certainly an odd, chewing rhythm.
- Capt. Matthew Gideon: If it's not eating us, what's it doing? - No it's not! It's mating with us?
- Galen: Well it's not exactly the first contact situation that I'd have envisioned, but-
- [first lines]
- Lt. John Matheson: Sir, before you go into your meeting, I wanted to let you know that Mr. Jones is here from the Bureau of Telepath Integration.
- Capt. Matthew Gideon: The same Mr. Jones from six months ago? He gets around, doesn't he?
- Lt. John Matheson: They're all called Mr Jones. It's their way of making the examination less personal.
- Capt. Matthew Gideon: How could it not be personal? He crawls inside your head and roots around for dirt.
- Lt. John Matheson: But only one telepath can watchdog another. It's like Internal Affairs of a police force...
- [last lines]
- Dureena Nafeel: But what about your question, Galen? Did you find your answer to "why"?
- Galen: That one - may take a little longer.