- [Kira is intently watching Odo stir a sauce with high concentration]
- Odo: You find something amusing, Major?
- Major Kira: Oh, I just think you look so... cute.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: None of Dax's hosts, even Jadzia, had any musical ability.
- Doctor Bashir: Nobody said life was fair.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Yeah, even if you had seven of 'em.
- Doctor Renhol: [to her assistant] Tell Doctor Torvin to prepare the new host for surgery. We'll begin transferring the symbiont in fifteen minutes.
- Commander Sisko: Tell Doctor Torvin to get a cup of raktajino. He won't be needed.
- Commander Sisko: I'm not interested in exposing your secret, Doctor. All I care about is Jadzia. And I promise you, if she dies, I'll see to it that the entire planet knows why.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Joran.
- Joran Belar: You know who I am.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: You're part of me.
- Commander Sisko: I suppose it would have been easier if you'd never found out about Joran.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: No, I'm glad I did. If you want to know who you are, it's important to know who you've been.
- [last lines]
- Commander Sisko: Good night, old man.
- Lieutenant Dax: Benjamin. I'll see you in the morning.