- Mark Harris: Lioa, you and Xos took other people's bodies.
- Lioa: Yours was done for you. And afterwards, your mind was made blank.
- Mark Harris: What do we look like? What is our original appearance?
- Lioa: We are small. We are very beautiful.
- Dr. Miller Simon: He's taking this pretty hard...
- Dr. Elizabeth Merrill: Well, he's the only water breathing Mark Harris there is.
- Dr. Elizabeth Merrill: This is no time for jokes, Miller, it's is time for brains. We have a problem here, and only someone with a lot of brains is going to solve it.
- Lioa: When you were in the spaceship, did you see the image of me on the wall?
- Lioa: The triangle with the curled eyes?
- Lioa: And the three mouths...
- Mark Harris: Yes. And you were right, you are beautiful.
- Dr. Miller Simon: It's got to be a spaceship. That's all there is to it, a spaceship from a water planet!
- Dr. Elizabeth Merrill: But who brought it here, or what?
- Dr. Miller Simon: What does it matter? It's finaly happened, being from outer space have landed. What a wonderful moment!
- Dr. Elizabeth Merrill: Miller, it's possible there are three deaths connected with this.
- Dr. Miller Simon: We don't know that.
- Dr. Elizabeth Merrill: It's radioactive!
- Dr. Miller Simon: Radioactive?
- Dr. Elizabeth Merrill: What do you think?
- Dr. Miller Simon: I'm thinking that we have a very strange can 'o worms here.
- C.W. Crawford: And how is the most beautiful girl in the Foundation today?
- Ginny Mendoza: You said that to Dr. Merrill yesterday.
- C.W. Crawford: Well, yesterday she was, today you are.
- Dr. Elizabeth Merrill: Mark, I'm sorry, I know how you must feel.
- Mark Harris: You have to learn not to be so effected by my problems. There's too much to do, too much to learn.