Quotes from S.D. Perry

I've been Attainted." Ro stared at her. "You mean . . ." "I mean that I am no longer welcome within the Bajoran faith," Kira said calmly. "I'm forbidden from entering any temple, nor can I study any of our prophecies, or wear my earring, or look into an Orb, or even pray with other Bajorans. Ever." *

Over time, she'd come to believe that the only true emotional infirmity was denial; once a thing was accepted, it could be met without fear. She wished she could tell him that it was no weakness

Nog remembered what an Earth-style omelet was made from, from his time at Starfleet Academy—bird eggs and flavored mold. In a word, revolting.

Doesn't take much skill to stay married. Just some patience and the common sense to know when to shut up and listen.

I'll be as strong as I need to be.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. —NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

Kira watched them talk and noticed how they quickly fell into the easy give-and-take of Starfleet-trained information exchange. It was a skill she had always admired in Sisko, Jadzia, O'Brien, and Julian, but hadn't imagined it extended to all Starfleet officers, even former ones like Ro. Klingons don't do this, she mused. Or the Romulans or the Cardassians. They have their own methods, their own martial cultures, but nothing that can compete with this. Ro

Though if you get your ass kicked by a mathematical theorem, don't come crying to me.

And nothing's more frustrating than having feelings you didn't decide to have.

the right to be a god

is what I have to do, she thought firmly, so I'm doing it. As her dear, incarcerated father was fond of saying, wishing that things were different didn't make it so.