- Odo: [on Jadzia and Leeta] I've noticed they've been spending quite a bit of time together.
- Doctor Bashir: Do you keep tabs on everybody, Constable?
- Odo: Not everyone. But really, Doctor, two Delvin fluff pastries for breakfast this morning, you of all people should know better than to start your day like that.
- Doctor Bashir: What's the matter, Chief?
- Chief O'Brien: [referring to Nog] It just occurred to me - as soon as that kid graduates from the Academy, I'm gonna have to call him 'sir'.
- Jake Sisko: [re holosuites] Well, you should know not to end a program sitting down.
- [after Nog has fallen on his backside when terminating a simulation]
- Rom: [Quark is walking down a corridor of the Habitat Ring when Rom, more furious than we've ever seen him, suddenly appears and grabs Quark by his lapels] I know what you did!
- Quark: Take it easy! What's wrong with you?
- Rom: You know what's wrong!
- [Rom holds up an isolinear data rod]
- Rom: You reconfigured the Holosuite so that Nog would fail the spatial orientation test!
- Quark: [knowing the jig is up] I did it for his own good, Rom.
- [Rom is only a heartbeat away from tearing Quark's lobes off]
- Quark: I couldn't just stand by and watch my nephew throw his life away.
- Rom: You had no right to interfere! I've already told Commander Sisko what you did, and he's gonna let Nog retake the test!
- Quark: [incredulous] You what?
- Rom: You heard me!
- [Rom advances on Quark like a diesel engine]
- Rom: And if you ever do anything to hurt Nog again I'll burn the bar to the ground!
- Quark: You wouldn't dare.
- Rom: Yes, I would! My son's happiness is more important to me than anything... even latinum! Remember that, brother!
- [Rom storms off leaving a very shaken Quark behind]
- [Nog is anxious to be admitted to Starfleet Academy]
- Jake Sisko: Don't worry so much, Nog. You'll be a great cadet.
- Quark: In the meantime, you make a lousy stock boy. Why can't you take after your friend here? He knows enough to stay out of Starfleet. Even a Hew-man can see there's a lot more profitable opportunities out there for a young man with ambition.
- Nog: Uncle, he wants to be a writer. There's no profit in that.
- Doctor Bashir: [embodying Torias, referring to Bashir] You should tell your friend to live a little. Life's too short to deprive yourself of the simple pleasures. I should know.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: You didn't exactly deprive yourself.
- Doctor Bashir: No. But my life *was* too short.
- [Sisko is to embody the Dax host Joran]
- Odo: Are you sure about this, Commander?
- Commander Sisko: Don't worry, Odo, Joran isn't going to be able to hurt anyone from inside of a holding cell.
- Odo: There's just one problem - you're going to be in there with him.
- Commander Sisko: [as Joran] My strength is within you. You don't have to be afraid of it.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: I'm not.
- Commander Sisko: Then let me show you how to use it. Lower the force field, Jadzia. Lower it, and you will never have to be afraid of anything ever again.
- [Jadzia has bashed up Joran in Sisko's body]
- Commander Sisko: [as himself] Thanks.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: For what?
- Commander Sisko: For not breaking any bones.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: [to Curzon/Odo] I feel like I don't have your respect. And I'm afraid when your memories are restored to me, I'm going to feel like I don't respect myself.
- [Curzon has decided to stay in Odo's body]
- Commander Sisko: Let me tell you something about Curzon. He was my friend, he was my confidant - in a way, he was my teacher as well. But he was also manipulative, selfish, and arrogant. Most people let him get away with it because he was so charming. Sometimes, I let him get away with it, too. But from time to time, he'd push me too far, and I'd have to stand up to him, tell him he'd crossed the line.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: And how would he react?
- Commander Sisko: Sometimes he'd just laugh and admit it. Sometimes he'd be furious. But either way, he'd back off because he knew he was wrong. And he is wrong now.
- [Curzon has admitted his love for Jadzia]
- Odo: [as Curzon] So, now that you know, you can see that it's best for both of us that I stay here, in this body.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Why, because you loved me?
- Odo: Because I still love you.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: There's no shame in that, Curzon.
- Odo: Yes, there is. And if we rejoin, you'll feel it too.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: No, I won't. Because I love you. You're a part of me, and I want you back. That way Jadzia and Curzon can be together the way they should be. Through Dax.
- [last lines]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: You've given me a special gift.
- Odo: Oh?
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: You see... now I have Curzon's memories of what it felt like to be a Changeling. I never realized how much joy it gives you.
- Odo: And I never understood how much joy you humanoids experience in things like eating, drinking... staying up all night playing tongo. Frankly, I don't see how Curzon ever managed to get any work done.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: He always seemed to, somehow.
- Odo: Well... he must've been a remarkable man.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Yes, he is.