- ["Jadzia" is trying to seduce Dr. Bashir, who is desperately trying to keep her at bay]
- Jadzia: Why are you fighting this?
- Doctor Bashir: Why am I fighting this? Why... *am* I fighting this?
- Doctor Bashir: [to Dax, about "Jadzia"] She has a sense of humor, as... as I've always imagined *you* do.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: I could use one about now.
- Buck Bokai: That day we won the world series, there were only 300 people in the stands.
- Commander Sisko: 301 in my version.
- Buck Bokai: I heard you cheering.
- Major Kira Nerys: Yellow alert? Against our own imaginations?
- Commander Sisko: D'you have a better idea?
- Chief O'Brien: I know what you look like. But you're not...
- Rumpelstiltskin: Na, don't say it! I don't like the sound of it, you know.
- Chief O'Brien: Rumpelstiltskin!
- Rumpelstiltskin: [winces and looks at O'Brien quizzically] Now, you didn't think that would make me break in two and disappear, did you? Not this time. I learned my lesson back in the kingdom. I don't make deals like that anymore.
- Rumpelstiltskin: You're afraid - of me!
- Chief O'Brien: Look, figment, I'm not afraid of anybody - least of all you!
- [Bashir admits his infatuation for Dax, which is not quite returned]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: Julien - you are a wonderful friend.
- [Bashir moans in torment]
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: I enjoy the time we spend together!
- Doctor Bashir: Stop! You're driving a stake through my heart.
- Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: [preparing to leave] Try a high-pitch sonic shower; it'll make you feel better.
- Doctor Bashir: No, it won't.
- Doctor Bashir: [to himself] I've already tried it.
- Buck Bokai: This imagination of yours - we have never seen anything like it. It's very real to all of you, but... yet it's not. At first, it seemed to us to be a curse, an irritation. That Odo fellow even called it a 'waste of time'.
- Commander Sisko: I disagree with him.
- Buck Bokai: I knew you would. I learned that about you, that you can have such an affection for someone you never even met. I wonder if you appreciate how unique that imagination of yours really is.
- Commander Sisko: Not always.
- [last lines]
- Buck Bokai: We got to go.
- Commander Sisko: But you haven't told us anything about your species.
- Buck Bokai: I'd like to. Maybe next year.