- Quark: You think the whole galaxy is plotting around you, don't you? Paranoia must run in your species, Odo. Maybe that's why no one has ever seen another shape-shifter. They're all hiding!
- Croden: I'm sorry if I made things awkward; I didn't have much choice.
- Commander Sisko: Why not?
- Croden: My needs exceed my skills.
- Odo: Don't thank me, I already regret it.
- [after proposing to a Vulcan captain to take Croden and Yareth to her home world]
- Odo: That... Croden... is an interesting character.
- Quark: I wouldn't know.
- Odo: Really? I thought you said you got to know him rather well.
- Quark: I never told you that! I merely said we chatted when he bought a drink or two.
- Odo: I've talked to several people who saw the two of you engaged in heavy conversations, while Morn here says you even bought the fellow a meal.
- Quark: Morn should keep his big mouth shut!
- [Croden has killed Ah-Kel's brother in self defense]
- Ah-Kel: My only purpose in life from here on... is to see him dead!
- [last lines]
- Odo: Computer, set a course for the worm hole.
- Computer Voice: Course laid in.
- Odo: Ready engines... Home... Where is it?
- Odo: [to Croden's stone] Some day we'll know... cousin. - Engage!
- Rom: Oh, you are clever, brother. Now Ah-Kel will rid us of Croden and Odo.
- Quark: Unless Odo is sensible and gives up his prisoner.
- Rom: Oh no. Then Croden would tell Ah-Kel the truth about our plan. We're dead. Weeeee're dead. You shouldn't have told him how to find them.
- Quark: Be quiet. Odo would never give up his prisoner. He'll just get himself killed.