- L'Rell: T'Kuvma taught us that the Federation cannot help itself. It seeks universal homogenization and assimilation.
- Admiral Cornwell: T'Kuvma was an ignorant fool. And your people are moving closer and closer to my home planet. What are you looking for? More territory? Conditional surrender? I mean, your people won't even make demands. Why? How does this war end?
- L'Rell: It doesn't. Klingons have tasted your blood. Conquer us, or we will never relent.
- Admiral Cornwell: I couldn't have imagined...
- Sarek: That Lorca was an impostor from an alternate universe was not the most obvious conclusion.
- Sylvia Tilly: Did you ever think, when you signed up for Starfleet, that you'd be forced to see war and death?
- Michael Burnham: Death found me when I was a child. So, yeah. I knew what I was getting into.
- Sylvia Tilly: I don't think I did. Not really. Does that make me naive?
- Michael Burnham: It makes you optimistic.
- Sarek: There is irony here, of course. The man you fell in love with was a Klingon.
- Michael Burnham: He... I don't know what he was.
- Sarek: There is also grace. For what greater source of peace exists than our ability to love our enemy?
- Sylvia Tilly: Tyler needs you.
- Michael Burnham: I'm told he's doing well.
- Sylvia Tilly: That's not possible, not when you've lost the person you care about the most.
- Michael Burnham: He killed a Starfleet officer. And he... he tried to kill me.
- Sylvia Tilly: And those crimes are reprehensible; but Tyler is not the person who did that, at least he's... he's not anymore. He is something other, someone new. And what we do now, the way that we treat him, that is who he will become. I know you still care about him.
- Michael Burnham: I do. That does not mean I should.