- Garak: Look at you. You're pathetic! A confused child, trying to live up to a legacy left by her predecessors. You're not worthy of the name 'Dax'. I knew Jadzia. She was vital, alive, she owned herself; and you - you don't even know who you are. How dare you presume to help me? You can't even help yourself! - Now get out of here, before I say something unkind.
- Quark: So, what do you think?
- Doctor Bashir: About what?
- Quark: About her.
- Doctor Bashir: About who?
- Quark: Dax!
- Doctor Bashir: ...Oh, Ezri. She seems... nice.
- Quark: Meaning what?
- Doctor Bashir: Meaning... nice.
- Quark: Oh, come on, Doctor. I know the way you felt about Jadzia.
- Doctor Bashir: She's not Jadzia.
- Quark: She's the next best thing. So - are you interested?
- Doctor Bashir: Sounds to me like you're the one who's interested, Quark.
- Quark: It's not every day you get a second chance with a woman.
- Doctor Bashir: It's not the same woman!
- Quark: She's still Dax, isn't she?
- Doctor Bashir: More or less.
- Quark: Well, that's good enough for me. Ready for a little competition?
- Doctor Bashir: You're insane.
- Quark: And you... are going to lose!
- Captain Sisko: What are you gonna learn in the next few months that you haven't already learned in the last 300 years?
- Ensign Ezri Dax: Oh, how to keep from breaking into tears for no reason... How to resist the urge to stand on my head - things like that.
- Captain Sisko: Why are you standing on your head, by the way?
- Ensign Ezri Dax: Emony used to do it.
- Captain Sisko: The gymnast?
- Ensign Ezri Dax: She found it relaxing.
- Captain Sisko: Do you?
- Ensign Ezri Dax: Actually, it's giving me a headache.
- Quark: Remember all those late night tongo games?
- Ensign Ezri Dax: Who could forget?
- Quark: Mmm...
- Ensign Ezri Dax: Wait a minute... You owe me ten strips of latinum from our last game!
- Odo: Why don't you join us for dinner tonight?
- Lieutenant Ezri Dax: I don't want to put you out.
- Colonel Kira: Oh no, please come; it'll take the pressure off me. All he does is sit there and count how many times I chew.
- [Garak has tried to force open the door of an airlock]
- Garak: I can't believe the way I humiliated myself back there. I just... wanted to get out. I couldn't breathe.
- Ensign Ezri Dax: If you were looking for fresh air, you sure were knocking on the wrong door.
- [Dax has been promoted to full counselor]
- Captain Sisko: [to Dax] Congratulations, Lieutenant. I want you to take a good look around. You have just agreed to take responsibility for the mental health of everyone in this room. You have your work cut out for you.
- Doctor Bashir: Well, I'm glad they made you a lieutenant. It would've been hard taking advice from an ensign.
- Chief O'Brien: Since when did you take advice from anyone?
- Ezri Dax: It's a strange sensation, dying. No matter how many times it happens to you, you never get used to it.
- [first lines]
- Ensign Ezri Dax: It's funny. Before yesterday, I'd never set foot on this station, but... it's as familiar to me as the back of my hand. Isn't that odd?
- Jake Sisko: [about Ezri Dax] She is cute.
- Captain Sisko: She is also about 300 years too old for you.
- Ensign Ezri Dax: I told him all about Trill traditions - Jadzia did. We discussed them - *they* discussed them.
- Captain Sisko: I understand.
- Ensign Ezri Dax: These pronouns are going to drive me crazy!
- Garak: They have no idea that I broke their code. All those Cardassians are going to die because of me!
- Ensign Ezri Dax: I suppose that's one way of looking at it.
- Garak: What other way is there?
- Ensign Ezri Dax: That by helping to end the war, you'll be saving lives.
- Garak: Save lives? And what lives would I be saving? Human? Klingon? Romulan?
- Ensign Ezri Dax: And Cardassian.
- Garak: No, not Cardassians! They're going to fight to the bitter end; the Dominion will see to that. Don't you understand? Don't you see? I wanted to believe that I was helping my people, liberating them. But all I've done is to pave the way for their annihilation. I'm a traitor!
- [Dax has decided to leave Starfleet]
- Captain Sisko: Well, if you're leaving Starfleet, you'll have to find something to do. Let's see. Maybe you could become one of the people who take care of the symbiont pools. It's quiet in those caves, no one around, no one expecting great things of you. You could spend the rest of your life underground, in the dark, stirring mud. Eighty or ninety years of that just might be what you need. And as for Dax, that symbiont had eight amazing lives. So what if the ninth was a waste?
- Ensign Ezri Dax: It means a lot to me that you want me to stay, but... I can't.
- Captain Sisko: Because of Worf?
- Ensign Ezri Dax: Mostly.
- Captain Sisko: Well... you just say the word, and I will intimidate him for you.
- [Dr. Bashir is trying to extract something out of Quark's ear canal with tweezers. Quark is shrieking his head off]
- Quark: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!
- Doctor Bashir: [firmly yet calmly] Hold still.
- [Quark lets out a shorter shriek and braces himself for pain]
- Doctor Bashir: ....I think I got something.
- [Dr. Bashir pulls the object out of Quark's ear canal - a feather. Quark takes the tweezers holding the feather to get a good look at it as he massages his ear]
- Quark: I should've known... Never get a tympanic tickle from an amateur.
- Doctor Bashir: Tympanic tickle?
- Quark: It's...
- Doctor Bashir: [interrupting; realizing what Quark is going to refer to] Never mind. I don't want to know. Hold still. I'll get you some antibiotics.
- Lt. Cmdr. Worf: [after O'Brien turns up at his quarters with a bottle of bloodwine] Oh no, not again.