- Odo: I'll never understand the humanoid need to... 'couple.'
- Quark: You've never... coupled?
- Odo: Choose not to. Too many compromises. You want to watch the karo-net tournament; she wants to listen to music, so you compromise - you listen to music. You like Earth Jazz; she prefers Klingon Opera so you compromise - you listen to Klingon Opera. So here you were ready to have a nice night watching the karo-net match and you wind up spending an agonizing evening listening to Klingon Opera.
- Commander Sisko: I've missed your steamed Azna.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: You must miss Curzon too.
- Commander Sisko: He was... You were - are - a mentor. Another father to me.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: This happens to Trills, Benjamin. Sometimes our friendships with other species don't survive because of the change.
- Commander Sisko: It won't be that way with us. It's just, er... a little uncomfortable right now.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: I suggest that you allow yourself to feel comfortable with your discomfort. Time can do the rest.
- Major Kira: Wait a minute - Ibudan goes into the holosuite alone, locks the door. Nobody transports in, a few minutes later he is murdered. How's that possible?
- Odo: It's not. Unless the murder was committed by someone who could get through the cracks in the door - say, a shape-shifter.
- Doctor Bashir: What is this?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: An Altonian brainteaser.
- Doctor Bashir: A brainteaser?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: A puzzle.
- Doctor Bashir: A puzzle?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Mmm...
- Doctor Bashir: I love puzzles. How does it work?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: It responds to neural theta-waves. The goal is to turn the sphere into a solid color.
- Doctor Bashir: And that's all?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: That's all. I've been trying to master it on and off for... oh, 140 years. Would you care to try?
- Commander Sisko: Mr. Odo, you're not going to take the law into your own hands.
- Odo: The law? Commander, laws change, depending on who's making them - Cardassians one day, Federation the next. But justice is justice.
- Commander Sisko: What the hell do you people intend to accomplish here?
- Bajoran #1: We want the shape-shifter!
- Commander Sisko: And what do you think you're gonna do to him *if* you get to him?
- Zayra: [sarcastic] He's right. How do you get a rope around the neck of a shape-shifter?
- [last lines]
- Keiko O'Brien: My name is Keiko O'Brien, I'll be your teacher. Why don't we turn on our computers and access the files on Bajor to find out a little bit more about the people and history of this world?
- Sisko: [Keiko has come to Sisko to broach the idea of opening a school on the station after seeing Jake and Nog get into trouble] You won't get any argument from me, Mrs. O'Brien. When I heard what happened this morning on the promenade...
- Jake Sisko: [interrupting] We weren't doing anything!
- Sisko: [giving him a Look] I don't want to talk about this now.
- Sisko: [referring to Nog] If I *hear* of you hanging around with him...
- Jake Sisko: [getting ready to run for his life] I thought you didn't want to talk about this now!
- [first lines]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: [meditating with eyes closed and back to him, as he enters] Good evening, Julian.
- Doctor Bashir: How did you know it was me?